Why do people hate our research for The Great Sex Rescue so much? Well, really hate our research for everything, including our new book She Deserves Better! Last week, a Twitter storm broke out with me at the center of it. Podcast host Patrick Miller invited Josh...
If we're going to go to church, we want to go to a healthy church. No one sets out to go to a toxic church! But one of the big findings we had in our new book She Deserves Better (the audiobook version went on sale this week!) is that while church attendance is...
Every Young Man’s Battle is the only book I ever reviewed that made me weep. Perhaps it’s because I read it after I had already read a whole bunch of books aimed at teen girls, and it was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. But I think there was a whole other...
Denny Burk didn't like The Great Sex Rescue because we thought sex could be "egalitarian." Burk is the head of the Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and a professor at Boyce College at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He recently wrote an article where...
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...
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...
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...
The Gospel Coalition published a crazy article about sex this week, and the internet blew up. It's been such a crazy two days I don't even know where to begin. It's actually quite unbelievable--except I saw it unfold in real time. I feel overwhelmed because there is...
Sheila here! Keith came on the blog today discuss biases and how they relate to evangelicals interpretations of the Bible, especially when it comes to women. No one reads Scripture in an unbiased way – especially the people that say they do. Does a person have the...
For Years, Every Man's Battle by Steve Arterburn and Fred Stoeker has been the best-selling evangelical book tackling sexual addiction. However, in our research over the years it has become clear that the book misdiagnoses the root of sexual addiction, and gives the...
Sheila here! My husband Keith came on to discuss his frustrations with claims of "being unbiblical" and not reading the Bible "plainly" while also ignoring what the Bible says plainly when it doesn't suit a personal belief. The Bible is seemingly filled with...
John MacArthur has sent abused women back to their husbands. It is horrific. Julie Roys broke a story last year about Eileen Gray. Twenty years ago she came to the church leadership at Grace Community Church for help for her abusive marriage. Her husband was abusing...
Let's keep fixing things--with Part 2 with Philip Payne! This is an exciting week at Bare Marriage! First, our Fixed it for You book launches--30 terrible things that evangelical authors and pastors have said, "fixed" for you (including 10 brand new, never before seen...
Are you ready to do some fixing? I'm so excited to announce that today my Fixed It for You workbook launches! When The Great Sex Rescue was published, Rebecca gave me the idea to take some of the horrible things that evangelical authors and pastors have said, but them...
If single women feel excluded in church, then there is something really wrong with church. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, which means that churches everywhere will be focused on sermons about love and couplehood and marriage. And singles will likely, once...