Why did the evangelical church not recognize pedophilic language? Last week on the Bare Marriage podcast we told you about Dannah Gresh's Secret Keeper Girl curriculum, popular during purity culture, which told 8-12 year-old girls that their bellies were...
Sheila Wray Gregoire
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Is It True That All Guys Can’t Help But Imagine You Naked?
Do boys have to fight constantly not to picture girls naked? Yesterday on the Bare Marriage podcast (episode 183) we walked you through some of the problems that we discovered with the modesty messages that were given to girls as teens, especially during the purity...
PODCAST: How Did Modesty Messages Affect Us Long-Term?
How does hearing modesty messages as a teen affect you as an adult? We're working through another big chapter in our new book She Deserves Better today! For She Deserves Better, we surveyed 7000+ women to learn how their experiences as teens in church affect them...
Did David Rape Bathsheba? Plus Why the Answer Matters
For the last week, social media has been debating whether David raped Bathsheba. It erupted anew when Owen Strachan, a staunch patriarchalist, called out abuse advocate and lawyer Rachael Denhollander, saying that she was wrong to say that the David/Bathsheba story...
The Doors are Open and It’s Time for a Party!
I've been talking about this day for so long, and it's finally here! The Launch Team for She Deserves Better launches--for lack of a better word--today! We're so excited to have anyone who has preordered She Deserves Better join us for a whole lot of behind-the-scenes...
Have Babies, Not Orgasms? Our Critics Say We’re Against Procreation
Last week, Denny Burk accused us of being for women's pleasure rather than procreation. Burk is the head of the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, which defends extreme complementarianism (patriarchy), and thinks it's of God. He wrote an article addressing...