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How Do We Make Sure These Two Horrific News Articles Stop Happening?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 2, 2022 | Abuse

I read two terrible news articles over the weekend that had me grieving and got me all riled up. News article #1: A woman reports her rape to her Christian college, and is then is banned from campus for having pre-marital sex. NBC News explains what happened: When...

Keith: It’s a Short Line from Male Power to Abuse of Women and Children

by Keith Gregoire | Apr 20, 2022 | Abuse, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Sheila here! Last week I published some “Fixed it for Yous” from biblical counselors which were extremely disturbing. My husband Keith was just infuriated, and asked to write his response. He’s quite passionate about this, and he’ll be...

Your Thoughts on Biblical Counseling vs. Licensed Counseling

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 12, 2022 | Abuse

Yesterday I caused quite a stir by talking about some of the problems with how the biblical counseling movement started, and some of the problems with some places it’s currently being taught. I want to stress that we don’t need to think of biblical...

Biblical Counseling and Horrid Perspectives on Abuse: How Did Things Go So Wrong?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 11, 2022 | Abuse

Biblical Counseling Can Be Dangerous. Julie Roys has been doing an expose of how John MacArthur handled counseling Eileen Gray, whose husband was physically and emotionally abusing her children (and later found to be also sexually abusing them). When she went to the...

Out of a Bill Gothard Cult, and Finding Jesus: Podcast with Emily Elizabeth Anderson

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 7, 2022 | Podcasts

One of the things I enjoy most about working online is meeting really cool people. And one of those cool people is Emily Elizabeth Anderson from Thriving Forward. We met on Facebook, and it took me a while to connect the dots to realize that I had already heard of...

Meditations on The God Who Sees Me

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 25, 2022 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

I’ve been thinking lately about how much women are often made invisible or ignored. Specifically, I’ve been reading through Every Young Man’s Battle (I’ll write a review soon; I just need to process its awfulness first), and I’m amazed...