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Our research has identified that a lot of stuff taught in church about marriage, sex, and gender roles actually leads to worse sex and less happy marriages.

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Bare Marriage Podcast

Sheila Wray Gregoire hosts the Bare Marriage podcast, where we strip away all the pat answers and the Christian-ese and get back to healthy, biblical, evidence-based advice for your marriage and your sex life.

And we have a lot of fun while we do it.

New episodes every Thursday!

LATEST PODCAST

PODCAST: Recovering from Purity Culture

PODCAST: Recovering from Purity Culture

What if purity culture really did a number on you? We talk a lot here at Bare Marriage about how harmful much of the purity culture rhetoric was: It increased women's chances of marrying an abuser; increased the chances she'd be sexually harassed or assaulted at...

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Revisiting “Don’t Be a Stumbling Block”

Revisiting “Don’t Be a Stumbling Block”

Are women responsible for keeping men from lusting? There’s a chilling and glaring error in complementarian theology; men are supposed to lead women and children - both at home and in the church (with many teachers going so far as to say that women cannot even give...

LATEST BLOG SERIES

8 Things to Know about Religious Deconstruction and Exvangelicals

8 Things to Know about Religious Deconstruction and Exvangelicals

Deconstruction is a key term in evangelicalism that nobody knew 10 years ago. It’s a growing movement, and it’s largely misunderstood. I’m dedicating four podcasts to deconstruction, starting tomorrow. We'll begin with Sarah McCammon talking about her book...

What if Jesus meant what he said when he told us to judge a tree by its fruit?

I (Sheila) have been writing about sex and marriage since 2008. But since January of 2019, me and my team have undertaken the largest and most comprehensive studies ever done on evangelical women’s marital and sexual satisfaction.

Our ground-breaking survey of 20,000 women identified which common teachings in the evangelical church are making marriages and sex lives worse, not better. Today, our mission is to help couples and individuals undergo a “Great Sex Rescue” by shedding those damaging messages and replacing them with evidence-based, biblical, healthy teaching.

Meet the Team

Sheila Wray Gregoire

Sheila Wray Gregoire

Founder of Bare Marriage, award-winning author, and expert knitter.

Rebecca Lindenbach

Rebecca Lindenbach

Sheila's co-author, podcast co-host, and general right-hand-woman.

Keith Gregoire

Keith Gregoire

Keith is Sheila's husband and co-author of "The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex."

Joanna Sawatsky

Joanna Sawatsky

Research Coordinator and Statistician

Connor Shay Lindenbach

Connor Shay Lindenbach

Our Resident Tech Dude

Tammy Arseneau

Tammy Arseneau

Events and Scheduling Coordinator

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