A large part of the Christian church's teaching on women is seriously slanted. I see it all the time: I'll write a thoughtful, long post on how a woman should deal with sin in her family, and a commenter will say nothing except to quote 1 Peter 3:1-6 on how a woman...
What happens when pastors give sex advice, but they aren't trained to do so? This week's podcast we're talking about a big question: is it ever useful to expect pastors to give specific sex advice? What is a part of the pastor's job, and what simply isn't? If you want...
When Christian marriage advice goes wrong, we can end up following it to the letter--and failing our spouses. In the summer, when Rebecca and I were talking about this, one long-time reader sent me in her story, which illustrates this well, and I saved it to run...
One of the most frequent questions I've had since The Great Sex Rescue was published has been: "Have any of the authors responded to your critiques?" People want to know--has anyone owned their mistakes and made changes? And the quick answer is no. I wanted to have a...
Have you ever had dreams that didn't come true? We've just moved all of our posts from my previous site at To Love, Honor and Vacuum over to Bare Marriage, taking only those from 2018 forward. And we left about 1500 behind! Some of those older posts, though,...
We've been taking a romp through history looking at views of sex in different periods. We've looked at the Roman world; the medieval period; and the Victorian period. Today we're jumping forward to the 1970s. On the podcast this week we'll be taking a little bit of a...