Let's talk Alpha Males! It's the last podcast of season 7, and we're going to be taking May off of the podcast and the blog so we can finish up edits on our book and take a bit of a vacation. But we thought, for this last podcast of the season, we'd wrap up what we...
You've likely heard of the "Bear or Man?" Test If you were alone in the woods, would you rather come across a bear, or a man? It's been taking social media by storm, and women overwhelmingly have answered "bear", which has made many men angry. The reasons women have...
Why are we asking women to choose between being a wife and being a mom? One of the themes that pops up often in evangelical marriage literature is warnings to women not to be a mom first and a wife second. It's in almost all of Gary Thomas' books. I used to teach it!...
Is there hope for recovery for unwanted sexual behaviors, fantasies, or compulsions? I've been wanting to do this podcast for ages! I love Jay Stringer's book Unwanted, and we've connected behind the scenes a bit over the last few months, talking about our respective...
Why is the Desiring God website writing about beards? Sheila here! My husband Keith got fired up in the last few weeks looking at what was happening in the comments, so he wanted to share some thoughts with you. So here he is!Don’t get me wrong; I’m not...
Hey, everybody! Keith and I have been on vacation this week, just camping and hanging out and doing a whole lot of nothing. He had something on his mind yesterday and wrote up this post that he wanted to share! So here's what he's thinking about when he has time to...
A basic principle in the Old Testament is actually quite a simple one: People of God don't sacrifice children. Read through the prophets, and you'll hear the judgment against nations that sacrifice their kids to Molech, or make children "walk through the fire."...
It's time to talk to the guys today--and look at what masculinity really is! On the last Thursday of every month I like to aim the podcasts more at men (though of course women can get a lot of them too!). And today we tackled safe masculinity, or what true masculinity...
Every now and then my husband has something he really needs to get off of his chest, and this is one of those days! So I'm going to turn the blog over to him today, because he'd like to talk about masculinity. We'll be talking about this on tomorrow's Bare Marriage...
How many Christian husbands see sex in a healthy way? We know that sexual sin, and porn use, and objectification of women are rampant. But it's not everywhere. So how many guys aren't affected by this? In February and March I'm posting several "number of the day"...
Does lust have to be every man's battle? The Every Man's Battle book series has sold 4,000,000 copies, and they've certainly spread the idea that lust is, indeed, what every man struggles with. And people do believe it in large numbers. 62% of women and 73% of men...
Rebecca's postpartum! So we thought it was the perfect time to look at the postpartum advice given in evangelical circles to women. We found in our survey that sex lives can start to go off course with the way that sex is handled postpartum. Many people don't recover...
What does a sexually confident man look like?Sheila here! We're in the middle of our sexual confidence series. We began that series looking at the 3 characteristics of a sexually confident woman. Today on the blog I've asked my husband Keith to chime in and write...
My husband Keith's on the blog today! He got quite fired up recently in some Facebook comments, absolutely dismayed at how some Christians talk about women. This post is perhaps more fiery than I would normally write, but he really wanted to say this, so I said, "Go...