Is Stranger Things actually a good analogy? I was sitting here in my yellow chair trying to come up with an analogy I want to talk about today. I was originally thinking about spiders, and building webs. But that didn't seem quite right, because a web can be...
We're hear to change the conversation about sex and marriage in the evangelical church. And in the wider church too! We want to make it something healthy, evidence-based, and biblical (by which we mean Jesus-centered). And sometimes it's good to pause and ask, "are we...
You know when something happens and your heart stops and you start shaking? I had that experience yesterday when someone was able to hack into part of my Facebook business profile. I got sucked in by someone faking an email from a big podcast and pretending to want to...
Let's get real about Church life! Today we have some special guests on, the lovely ladies from Pastors' Wives Tell All! This is not the first time I've been on a podcast with them, but usually it's theirs. So this time they are joining me on my show to discuss the...
Today is my daughter Rebecca’s 29th birthday. And I want to take an opportunity to do something I don’t do nearly enough: tell you all how instrumental she is in everything that we do. But first, a story. She was around nine years old, and we were away on holiday at a...
Let's review the biggest posts from 2023! Happy New Year, everybody! I'm so grateful to those who follow the blog diligently, but also excited about those of you who have just found me. And at the beginning of each year, I like to look back and see what posts made...
Sometimes I feel like I'm writing into the void. I sit in my comfy yellow chair in my living room, and I just write what I'm thinking about, or what Rebecca and I have been talking about on walks, or what Keith and I have been discussing. I know people read because we...
I’m super proud of our Bare Marriage merch–and think it makes great gifts! We’re in the throes of the Christmas season now, and the deadline for buying merch and getting it delivered by Christmas is December 10, so the rush is on! And we have some awesome designs...
2022 has been a crazy year at Bare Marriage! We ended 2021--on December 31 no less--hitting 1,000,000 downloads of the podcast overall. So after three years, we got to 1,000,000 downloads, with 500,000 of them being in 2021. Well, in 2022 we reached 900,000 alone! So...
A new year has begun--so let's look over what was biggest on the blog in 2022! At the start of every year I like to look back and see what resonated with people the most that I wrote last year. What posts had the highest traffic, the most comments? This was a big year...
We've finally made the move, and To Love, Honor and Vacuum is now rebranded Bare Marriage! Connor has been working on this for a few months now, and it turned into a much bigger job than we anticipated. I started To Love, Honor and Vacuum back in 2008. I started out...
Science often makes leaps and bounds by disproving previous assumptions and hypotheses. Galileo turned the world upside down (literally) by positing that the world wasn't flat; that it was round and revolved around the sun. For centuries Newton's theories were the...
Do marriages need someone to be in charge? And what does it mean if you assume that they do? Last week Alistair Begg, a big speaker and theologian, posted this on social media:I could say so much about what's theologically wrong with this statement, but I'd encourage...
Like you, I'm heartbroken by the Josh Duggar case, and by the continued support for him from his wife. I noticed something that I shared on social media yesterday, and I thought it was worth a super quick post because I'm curious what my commenters think (and there...
On Fridays I like to take a look at what's been happening on social media this week, because often most of the writing/thoughts end up on Facebook or Instagram, and if you mostly read the blog you may miss them. So let's go: Let's talk Kissing Before Marriage! I...