249: Sheila Gregoire Asked 7,000 Women How Toxic Church Teaching Affected Them
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
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Armed with data from an all-new survey of over 7,000 women, the authors of The Great Sex Rescue reveal how experiences in church as teens affect women's self-esteem and relationships today. They expose common evangelical teachings that can backfire--the purity emphasis that can cause shame rather than good choices, the dating rules that can prime your daughter for abuse, and the one overarching belief that can keep her from setting healthy boundaries.
Instead, the authors advocate biblically grounded, freeing messages that are more about the dos and less about the don'ts. By reframing (and sometimes replacing) common evangelical messages to teen girls, this book will equip you to raise a daughter who can navigate the tumultuous teenage years while still clinging tightly to Jesus.
You can raise your daughter with the discernment to resist toxic teachings. Because she deserves better than a faith that keeps her small.
Sheila Wray Gregoire is the face behind BareMarriage.com, an award-winning author, and a sought-after speaker. Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach is a psychology graduate, Sheila's daughter, and the author of Why I Didn't Rebel. Joanna Sawatsky has a master's degree in public health and is a trained microbiologist, epidemiologist, and biostatistician.
Together they are the coauthors of The Great Sex Rescue and She Deserves Better.
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:09.2 | You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:20.3 | The testimonies shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. |
| 0:26.7 | Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:29.7 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. |
| 0:34.3 | Now, here's your host, Eric Squarsinski. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the show. Sheila, |
| 0:41.6 | thank you so much for joining me a second time on the podcast. Yeah, it's great to be back. |
| 0:46.0 | I think for the Great Sex Rescue, you interviewed, or you surveyed 22,000 people for this book, |
| 0:52.7 | 7,000 people, which is a lot of data. |
| 0:55.8 | But really, I think there's two questions we need to answer right out of the gate, |
| 0:59.4 | which is, number one, how could women dress more appropriately so as not to make men stumble? |
| 1:05.0 | Why do girls talk so much? |
| 1:06.5 | Have you figured that out in all this research? |
| 1:09.7 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:10.8 | I know. It's amazing how much these tropes |
| 1:15.7 | are just considered normally. Like, they're everywhere. And it's so hard to get away from them. |
| 1:22.2 | And so that's what you're really looking at in the new book is how does some of these really |
| 1:26.7 | stupid, harmful things that have |
| 1:29.6 | been said forever in evangelical circles? |
| 1:32.1 | How can we talk against them? |
| 1:33.7 | I'm glad you didn't hit end the minute I asked that question. |
| 1:36.3 | I was like, should I go for this in the beginning? |
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