#381 What I Actually Said About Sheila Gregoire and Al Mohler: Responding to the Backlash
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Did I owe Sheila Gregoire a private conversation before critiquing The Great Sex Rescue? Am I unqualified to review her work because I haven't read other books in the Christian marriage genre? And is it fair to question the methodology behind her research?
In this episode, I respond to the most common objections raised after my conversation with Anne Kennedy about The Great Sex Rescue. We'll discuss whether public ideas require public critique, the difference between anecdotal evidence and sound research, and why Scripture, not personal experience, must remain the Christian's ultimate authority.
I'll also address the controversy surrounding comments by Al Mohler regarding women on church-sanctioned podcasts. Did he really say women shouldn't have podcasts? Is there a meaningful difference between a woman speaking publicly and a woman functioning in a pastoral role? And am I being inconsistent in the way I apply those principles?
These conversations touch on some of the most emotionally charged issues in the church today: sex, marriage, gender roles, authority, discernment, and biblical faithfulness. My goal isn't to win arguments but to model critical thinking, clarify what I actually believe, and encourage Christians to test every claim against the Word of God.
Let's sort through the controversy, examine the assumptions, and pursue truth with both conviction and grace.
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| 0:29.6 | Today. Today I'm going to be responding to some pushback I received over a recent podcast episode in which Ann Kennedy and I critiqued the book, The Great Sex Rescue, by Sheila Ray |
| 0:34.8 | Guaguar. Am I unqualified to critique her book because I haven't read other |
| 0:39.6 | books in the genre of Christian sex and marriage? Why don't I just have her on my podcast |
| 0:44.7 | and talk to her personally? Maybe I should have a private conversation with Guaguar before I |
| 0:49.9 | critique her book. Am I wrong to ask questions about her methodology? We're going to cover all of that |
| 0:55.7 | and so, so much more, but we're also going to cover some pushback I received from an ex post |
| 1:01.0 | in which I agreed with Al Mueller that a woman should not sit alongside other pastors on a church-sanctioned |
| 1:08.0 | podcast with the purpose of expounding, expositing, and applying the |
| 1:12.1 | word of God for that local congregation. So did my critics get what I was saying, or are they |
| 1:17.2 | putting words in my mouth? We're going to cover all of those questions and so much more, |
| 1:21.1 | and hopefully we're going to do it with grace and biblical truth. First, I want to give you the |
| 1:25.7 | why. Why am I doing a podcast episode like this? |
| 1:29.6 | I typically like to equip with my words and then let things kind of fall, let the chips fall where |
| 1:37.3 | they may. So I don't always respond to critics, but I thought this could be a good exercise |
| 1:42.1 | in modeling critical thinking. I got a significant amount of, I will say, expected pushback on both of these posts because I just know that people are very emotionally invested in these topics. And they're kind of tied together because how we think about biblical sex and marriage is going to tie in with what we think |
| 2:03.4 | the roles of men and women are in the church, in the home, in society. And these are things that I think |
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