#384 Does Hierarchy Hurt Marriage? Let's Listen to Sheila Wray Gregoire Together
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.8 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
What happens when popular Christian voices claim that hierarchy is the root cause of harm in marriage, sex, and the church?
In this episode, I listen through key clips from a recent Theology Gals interview with Sheila Wray Gregoire and offer a live, real-time response. I examine claims about complementarianism, egalitarianism, purity culture, deconstruction, women's well-being, marriage dynamics, and the future of the church.
Rather than simply telling you what to think, I hope to model the process of discernment...evaluating arguments, questioning assumptions, examining methodology, and comparing every claim to Scripture. Along the way, I highlight points of agreement, challenge what I believes are misrepresentations of complementarian theology, and explores how Christians can thoughtfully engage influential voices online.
Whether you're wrestling with questions about marriage, church leadership, deconstruction, or how to evaluate the content you consume, this episode offers a practical look at biblical discernment in action.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
This video is sponsored by:
WE HEART NUTRITION
From Our Family to Yours, Whole Supplements for Every Age and Stage.
Go to http://www.weheartnutrition.com for more information.
Use my code: ALISA
A'DEL NATURAL COSMETICS
Elevate your skincare routine with A'del's toxin-free cosmetics.
Experience the difference in quality and purity.
Go to www.adelnaturalcosmetics.com for more information.
Use my code: ALISA
FOUNDATION WORLDVIEW
Foundation Worldview creates curriculum series that will empower your child to think
Biblically in a deceptive world.
Go to www.foundationworldview.com for more information.
Use my code: ALISA
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Booking: www.alisachilders.com/booking
To help in your study of the Bible: www.logos.com/alisa
To Purchase the new CD, “Beauty from the Ash”, go to www.alisachilders.com/music
There you can get the CD, backing tracks, string charts, rhythm charts and stems.
Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/alisachilders
To order “Another Gospel”: www.alisachilders.com/another-gospel/
To order “Live Your Truth": www.alisachilders.com/live-your-truth-and-other-lies/
To order “The Deconstruction of Christianity”: https://alisachilders.com/the-deconstruction-of-christianity/
Potential Sponsors: https://alisachilders.com/sponsor-request-form/
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, let's listen to a podcast together. |
| 0:12.4 | Does hierarchy hurt marriage, sex, and the church? |
| 0:15.7 | Well, that is a question we're going to be engaging with today. |
| 0:18.0 | It's a claim that was made on a recent episode of the |
| 0:21.3 | Theology Girls podcast where they interviewed Sheila Ray Guiguar. Today's episode is brought to you |
| 0:26.4 | by WeHeart Nutrition, which is a Christian-owned pro-life vitamin supplement company with the |
| 0:31.8 | absolute highest quality. You can go to WeHeartnutrition.com and use my code Elisa for 20% off your first order. |
| 0:39.2 | All right, I want to give you a bit of the reason why I wanted to do this today. |
| 0:43.1 | It's a bit of a follow-up to my last couple of podcast episodes about my review of Greguars |
| 0:49.1 | The Great Sex Rescue. |
| 0:51.0 | So first, I reviewed the book with Ann Kennedy, and then I followed up with an episode where |
| 0:56.3 | I answered some of the pushback I received. And I thought that this would be a good end cap to put on |
| 1:01.2 | this series by listening through good bits of this podcast together. We're not going to listen to |
| 1:05.7 | the whole thing or this episode would be three hours long, but I've selected some clips that kind of give the gist |
| 1:12.1 | of the overall podcast episode and what was discussed. And my hope for this is that I can shed |
| 1:17.9 | light on a question that I'm asked a lot, and that is really how to discern the podcasts we listen |
| 1:23.4 | to. The influencers were influenced by the content we take in, whether it be books or Bible studies, |
| 1:29.0 | or even sermons we listen to online. So what I'm going to do is listen through to a good bit |
| 1:35.3 | of this episode and just give my live response and hopefully show you how I tend to listen |
| 1:42.4 | to content like this and how I take it and compare it to scripture, |
| 1:46.2 | what I'm thinking as I'm listening through to just model the way that I discern, because that is |
| 1:51.6 | probably the number one question I've asked. People will email through the website or I'll meet |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alisa Childers, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Alisa Childers and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

