Matt Krieg is a licensed professional counselor and director of counseling at Caring Well Counseling. Together, Laurie and Matt host the Hole in My Heart podcast. They live with their three children in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dan B. Allender (PhD, counseling psychology, Michigan State University) is professor of counseling at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. He taught previously at Grace Theological Seminary and Colorado Christian University. A speaker and writer, his books include The Healing Path, To Be Told, How Children Raise Parents, The Wounded Heart and Leading with a Limp. With Tremper Longman, he wrote Bold Love, Cry of the Soul, Intimate Allies and the IntimateMarriage Bible studies. Laurie Krieg is the director of parent programs and discipleship for The Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender. Laurie and her husband, Matt, are cohosts of the Hole in My Heart podcast, coauthors of An Impossible Marriage, andlive in West Michigan with their three kids.
""Laurie and Matt Krieg offer a rich, biblical framework for parents navigating the complicated terrain of talking about sexuality with children. The Kriegs provide a breadth of wisdom from their own parenting journey and incorporate key insights from psychology, all the while helping parents feel more effective and less alone. There is no shortage of parenting books available today, but Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World is one that sifts through the noise and offers concrete, practical guidance and modeling of critical conversations around human sexuality."" -- Julia Sadusky, licensed clinical psychologist and author of Start Talking to Your Kids about Sex: A Practical Guide for Catholics ""This book is a gift to all parents trying to navigate the complexity of raising children in today's world. In Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World, Laurie and Matt Krieg have shared invaluable wisdom, insight, and understanding that is crucial in these times. I wish I could make this book required reading for every parent."" -- Christine Caine, founder of A21 and Propel Women ""I'd love for every Christian parent to read this book. It covers not only what to say but also how to understand and communicate the important why's of God's plan for sexuality. This is a rich read, providing a powerful combination of personal experience, theological depth, and practical application."" -- Juli Slattery, president and cofounder of Authentic Intimacy and author of Rethinking Sexuality ""With wisdom, humility, gentleness, and the proper confidence of one who knows her subject and the fraught landscape it can sometimes bring, Laurie Krieg has, with Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World, offered her readers a book that we ought not simply read. Rather, we would do well to meditate upon it, carefully and with the same humility with which it has been penned. For all of us who long for our offspring to joyfully follow Jesus, this is a book that is no mere manual about children and sexuality; it is an invitation to partnering with God as he forms them into the image of the King."" -- Curt Thompson, psychiatrist and author of The Soul of Desire and The Deepest Place