Episode 303: Francine Rivers' And the Shofar Blew—Let’s Examine Christian Romance Fiction Part 1

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Marriage, Social Sciences, Science, Relationships, Sex, Christianity, Wife, Religion & Spirituality, Mother, Society & Culture, Advice, Family

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Send us a text We're doing something we've never done before—looking at a Christian fiction book to explore how fiction shapes our theology of marriage. Today we're discussing Francine Rivers' "And the Shofar Blew.” We're talking about how fiction doesn't give explicit advice but still profoundly influences our worldview about faith and marriage, and how even books with problematic messages can become part of our theological foundation without us realizing it. THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR O...

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0:00.0	Christian fiction can be awesome. It can be inspirational. It can help us grow with Jesus.
0:17.1	But what does it do to our theology of marriage? And can it be something which actually reinforces
0:22.8	some of the bad stuff that we've been hearing from other books? That's what we're going to be talking
0:26.5	about today in our look at And the Shofar Blue by Francine Rivers. Hi, I'm Sheila Ray Gregor from
0:32.0	bearmarriage.com where we like to talk about healthy, evidence-based biblical advice for your sex
0:36.5	life and your marriage.
0:37.8	And while we normally look at self-help books, what I decided to do was to start a discussion
0:42.5	on Christian fiction, looking specifically at a book that I read about 20 years ago that just
0:47.6	rubbed me totally the wrong way, even though I liked other books by this author.
0:51.3	Because I felt that the overall message that it was giving about marriage and even
0:55.0	about faith could actually end up hurting people when they read it because that wasn't the
0:59.9	message that we should be taking away. So I grabbed a bunch of women, a bunch of my friends
1:04.7	to talk about this and I would like to invite you to that conversation. Well, everybody,
1:10.1	we are here to do something we have never done before, which is look at
1:13.8	a fiction book.
1:14.6	And I have three good friends with me to do this.
1:18.4	I have Joanna Sawatsky, my co-author for Great Sex Rescue, she deserves better,
1:22.5	our stats person for everything we do.
1:24.3	She's just awesome.
1:25.9	And she writes all our peer reviewed papers.
1:29.4	We have several in submission right now.
1:31.4	Yay.
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