#378 Sheila Wray Gregoire's Great Sex Rescue: Real Problems, Wrong Answers? | Anne Kennedy
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🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Sheila Gregoire has become one of the most influential voices in the Christian conversation surrounding sex, marriage, and evangelical culture. But do her conclusions actually stand up to biblical and logical scrutiny? In this episode, I’m joined by Anne Kennedy for a thoughtful review of The Great Sex Rescue and a broader discussion of Sheila’s theology, trajectory, and influence. We discuss where she started, where she has landed, and ask whether her approach is truly rooted in Scripture or shaped more by cultural assumptions and modern psychology.
We also examine questions surrounding her research methodology, claims about complementarianism, purity culture, and whether evangelical Christianity is really the source of the problems she identifies. Along the way, we highlight areas where we agree—including concerns about pornography and real struggles many women face in marriage—while also exploring significant concerns about worldview, biblical authority, and the purpose of sex itself.
We also open with a conversation about the recent Avalon controversy and why theological precision matters now more than ever.
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| 0:00.0 | Does evangelical culture and teaching on marriage cause Christians to have bad sex? |
| 0:14.8 | Does complementarianism actually harm Christian's sex lives? |
| 0:19.3 | Well today, I'm going to be reviewing the book, |
| 0:21.4 | The Great Sex Rescue by Sheila Ray Guigua with my guest, Ann Kennedy. Anne is a prolific and |
| 0:28.3 | incredibly wise and witty author who blogs almost daily at Demotivations by Anne on Substack. |
| 0:35.2 | I want to recommend to all of my listeners that you subscribe to her blog |
| 0:38.5 | because she is so insightful. Just over the past several years, Anne has studied and interacted |
| 0:44.4 | with female influencers in the progressive space. She's written about things like deconstruction |
| 0:49.7 | culture, progressive Christianity. She's written articles about the theology of Jen Hatmaker, |
| 0:55.5 | Rachel Hollis, Beth Allison Barr, Rachel Held Evans. She's written about Side B theology, |
| 1:00.4 | Revoice, and Preston Spinkle. And she's written about Sheila Ray Guigua, whose book The Great |
| 1:05.6 | Sex Rescue we're going to discuss today. One of the reasons I decided to review this book today |
| 1:10.5 | is because I am constantly |
| 1:12.0 | asked about Sheila Ray Guaguer and her trajectory, her theology, does it line up with Scripture? |
| 1:17.8 | And I didn't really have the bandwidth to do a deep dive on her as an influencer, but I did read |
| 1:23.5 | her book, The Great Sex Rescue, and I figure I would keep my review contained to that book, |
| 1:29.0 | but I invited my friend Ann Kennedy, who has done a deep dive into Sheila Ray Gaguar and all of her |
| 1:34.4 | beliefs, her trajectory, where she started, where she landed. And I figured that would be a |
| 1:39.0 | great way to give you a fully-orbed review and to help you discern through some of the teachings. Now, I do want to do |
| 1:45.9 | a little bit of a disclaimer. We are going to talk about some sensitive topics that relate with |
| 1:50.9 | sex. So this may be an episode that you want to listen to first before you listen to it in front |
| 1:55.9 | of your kids or with your kids. Just be aware that we're going to be using some words that |
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