Episode 304: Francine Rivers' And the Shofar Blew Part 2: What Can We Learn from Christian Fiction?

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

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

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Send us a text We're diving into part two of our discussion on Francine Rivers' "And the Shofar Blew.” While Christian fiction can be inspirational, this novel reinforces dangerous theology about marriage, telling abuse victims to stay and suffer "better," portraying women who report pastoral abuse as liars, and presenting an incredibly sexist view of women's roles in the church as normal and godly. Join me and my friends Merry, Sarah, and Joanna as we unpack why books like these—even though ...

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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 part two of our look at And the Shofar Blue by Francine Rivers. Hi, I'm Sheila Ray Gregor
0:32.8	from bearmarriage.com where we like to talk about healthy, evidence-based biblical advice for your
0:37.3	sex life and your marriage. And while we normally look at about healthy, evidence-based, biblical advice for your sex
0:37.5	life and your marriage. And while we normally look at self-help books, what I decided to do last
0:42.8	week was to start a discussion on Christian fiction, looking specifically at a book that I read
0:48.0	about 20 years ago that just rubbed me totally the wrong way, even though I liked other books
0:51.6	by this author, because I felt that the overall
0:54.2	message that it was giving about marriage and even about faith could actually end up hurting
0:59.4	people when they read it, because that wasn't the message that we should be taking away.
1:03.3	So I grabbed a bunch of women, a bunch of my friends to talk about this. And we started last
1:08.4	week, and I would like to invite you to the second part of that
1:11.6	conversation. The advice that she gives to Sheila, Sheila, the brazen hussy. Jezebel Hussie.
1:18.6	Jezebel Hussie. Not our Sheila. No, not our Sheila. The pericature she...
1:23.6	Although we do have Jezebel merch in our store, which I don't think, too, if you had been called
1:28.7	Jezebel.
1:29.4	Okay.
1:30.3	So the advice that she gives to Sheila, that Jezebel's husband is stay with her.
1:35.8	You chose her, even though he's got plenty of evidence that not only is she cheating on him,
1:41.4	but she has done it repeatedly and she's manipulative and is a user from the beginning. Does she embezzled millions of dollars? That wasn't there. No, there was someone, one of the, one of the elders. Oh, it was Marr? Yes. Okay. Okay. My bad. I was thinking somehow Sheila was involved with the money disappearing. Okay. And he's a rich guy and he loves his first wife.
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