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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.
Curious to see how the books fared against our toxic teaching rubric?
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PODCAST: A Peer Reviewed Celebration (And a Plea to Take Science Seriously)
The Great Sex Rescue is officially peer reviewed! We used a subset of our dataset for a paper that was just published in the journal Sociology of Religion. So we have done it! We have raised the bar on what counts as research in evangelical marriage and sex advice....
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Why I Believe in Amazing Men
I believe men can be emotionally healthy and available– –just as much as women can be! I don’t believe that women are necessarily better parents, or more emotionally in tune and healthy, or more emotionally stable than men. I don’t believe that women are more...
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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
Founder of Bare Marriage, award-winning author, and expert knitter.
Rebecca Lindenbach
Sheila's co-author, podcast co-host, and general right-hand-woman.
Keith Gregoire
Keith is Sheila's husband and co-author of "The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex."
Connor Shay Lindenbach
Our Resident Tech Dude
Tammy Arseneau
Events and Scheduling Coordinator
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