It's time to revisit submission and Sarah! Way back in 2018, even before we wrote The Great Sex Rescue, I wrote a big series on submission. I haven't revisited it much since then because I had already written the series! But this week I've found myself linking back to...
They called Doug Wilson fringe until he wasn't anymore. The first thing I saw this morning when I got on social media was a post by Christy Lynne Wood saying exactly that--they called him fringe until he wasn't. And it's true--I called him fringe as well, for a time....
The Doug Wilson blowup made me realize: We need to speak to our friends about fear. Did you see the CNN interview with Wilson and members of his church last week? Basically, in that interview they supported: Women existing primarily for reproduction (exactly against...
Do evangelicals focus on hierarchy--or people having power over others--as a positive thing?Keith's been such a powerful advocate for giving women a voice, whether it's professionally in his role as a physician or whether it's in churches where he's served on a...
We're so excited to have Kristin Kobes Du Mez join the podcast today! Kristin is the author of a book that is getting a ton of buzz--Jesus and John Wayne. Interestingly, The Great Sex Rescue is often recommended by Amazon to people who buy Jesus and John Wayne, so I...
Do we have hope for the future? How did we get here with sex? What are the big problems with the way the evangelical church sees sex? Recently I did a big interview with Rachel Joy Welcher, author of Talking Back to Purity Culture (remember the podcast she was on?)...
I think men are made fully in the image of God--and can be emotionally mature and kind, with self-control. Because men are incredible people, too! I had a bit of an emotional birthday week (to say the least) with a breakdown on yesterday's podcast. As a commenter...
Mark Gungor claims to be the #1 marriage teacher in the U.S. military, and I think it's important to know what he is teaching. As many of you know, last week an audio recording was published on The Wartburg Watch between pastor, comedian, and marriage teacher Mark...
So apparently Shaunti Feldhahn, Emerson Eggerichs, and Kevin Leman were all talking with Mark Gungor about what to do about me. This is an odd story, and a little hard to follow, but bear with me. Do you remember the kerfuffle in early April with Mark Gungor? He had...
We all know there are lots of crazies on the internet saying super toxic things using biblical language. And it's generally best to ignore those people, I figure. We shouldn't give fringe people traffic! This week, though, about 20 different people have sent me an...
Today's post is by Dorothy Littell Greco, author of Making Marriage Beautiful and Marriage in the Middle, a great book about marriage in midlife. Today she adapts an excerpt for us from Marriage in the Middle about how faulty teaching and cultural conditioning...
Our first draft of The Great Sex Rescue was almost 80,000 words. We had to cut a lot to get it down to 65,000. So we started with cutting big chunks (which is often easier than cutting a sentence here or there.) And one chapter that we removed was sex as transaction....
Why is it that so many Christian books steer clear of actual research? Today's post is a little self-serving (well, maybe a lot) because we're about to close our latest survey for women, and we'd love about 1000 more responses today! So if you're a woman, please take...
The Bible does not tell women that they can't refuse sex if their husbands want it. This week, The Transformed Wife put up a video disputing what I've been saying about sex. I've been stressing that biblical sex is MUTUAL, INTIMATE, and PLEASURABLE, and that means...
I've been fixing terrible quotations from some Christian marriage & sex books! If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you've likely seen these. And I sent them out to my email subscribers last Friday, too! But if you just read the blog, you may have missed...