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Purity Culture Authors Need to Apologize. Here’s Why They Won’t.
We had four lawsuit threats the week that The Great Sex Rescue was published. Authors were upset that we had quoted their works and showed them in a bad light. Our publisher pretty quickly talked them down (after all, you can’t sue someone for quoting your exact...
PODCAST: Purity Culture Authors Are Rewriting History (Case Study of Dannah Gresh)
Dannah Gresh is Rewriting And the Bride Wore White. But is she apologizing for all the harmful things she wrote before? Is she acknowledging that she told 8-year-old's that their bellies are "intoxicating", which she defined as making adult men "out of control"? Is...
A Letter to SBC Women: It’s Time to Go
This has been a tough but clarifying week for the North American evangelical church. The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination, voted 3-to-1 to further restrict the roles of women, limiting their ability to pastor or preach to congregations....
PODCAST: Keith and Sheila Respond to crazy clips (Is it That Jezebel Spirit Again?)
Let's react to pastors, influencers, and more! One of the things that we like to do periodically is play some of the horrid reels that get sent to us and react to them. Yes, the reels are interesting and there's lots of commentary to be made. But one of the biggest...
Alisa Childers Owes Evangelical Women an Apology for Dismissing Their Pain
Alisa Childers recently critiqued The Great Sex Rescue on her podcast. Childers calls herself an apologist. She became well-known in Christian spaces as a member of ZoeGirl, and now hosts a podcast where she critiques anyone who doesn't endorse conservative Christian...
Can Complementarians Have Great Sex?
Is it necessary to critique complementarianism to help people have a better sex life? One of the critiques I get at Bare Marriage is that I'd be more impactful if we stopped critiquing complementarianism so much. I was talking last week about a big podcast that did an...
PODCAST: Let’s Talk Men of Virtue with Zachary Wagner
What is healthy masculinity? We hear a ton about toxic masculinity, and our guest today has written a book on Non-Toxic Masculinity before too! But what does it look like for men to pursue a life AS MEN but also as Jesus-followers? How do we figure out what it means...
Al Mohler, Women Podcast Hosts, and the Slippery Slope of Complementarianism
Complementarians often warn about the slippery slope of egalitarianismFor the last few years, the Southern Baptist Convention has been trying to get rid of female pastors. At first it was just about expelling churches that called women pastors. Now it's becoming more...
Why Complementarianism Depends on Keeping Women in a Bubble
Complementarianism is threatened when women see there are alternatives. I've got some quick new findings for you today, and then some birthday reflections I had yesterday (took the day off to celebrate my 56th birthday, mostly by building new garden beds, which was...
PODCAST: When Your Parenting Needs a Fresh Start feat. Wendy Snyder
Many of us are starting from scratch with parenting. We were raised in James Dobson, authoritarian type households, and we know we don't want that for our children. But we also look around at so many of the parenting trends today, and it seems as if there aren't any...