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...
Some awfully bizarre things happened at the recent Strong Men’s Conference–and Jezebel made an appearance. I don’t even know where to begin, and I don’t want to talk about the conference itself because so many have already done a good job. To sum up, there was one of...
When you've been raised to submit, will you even recognize abuse? With thanks to the NIV Kingdom Girls Bible for sponsoring this podcast! Today on the Bare Marriage podcast, we've got such a compelling interview with Lauren Rose from Called to Peace Ministries. She's...
On Friday I was talking about how churches should handle sexual abuse allegations. But what if you have to report sexual abuse yourself? A number of issues came out in the comments on that post that I thought really should be highlighted. So instead of answering a...
Churches and sexual abuse are in the news all too frequently today. First it was the Catholic Church. Then other denominations started to be looked at--most recently in a huge expose of the Southern Baptist Convention (700 victims in 200 churches; read the Houston...
What do you do if you have a friend who is just plain mean to her husband? On Mondays I like to take a reader question and take a stab at answering it--sometimes in a blog post and sometimes in a video. This was a great question that fits perfectly in our month on...
Birth control should be a shared responsibility. I'm worried that too often women feel pressured to do something that hurts their health in order to preserve their husband's comfort. And that's not right. I'm down in New Brunswick (right on the Quebec border, on the...
I don't believe that survivors of sexual abuse need to be scarred forever sexually. I do believe that you can still have a great sex life. At least, I truly want to believe that. And this week I've cried a lot of tears over it. Like many of you, I started watching...
How do you know if you're being abused? One of the hardest parts of blogging is reading so many heartbreaking emails and comments that come in from people in truly destructive marriages. I find myself wondering, why do people treat each other this way? And even more...
Are you married to a controlling husband? I wrote a big post recently about how too often our Christian culture promotes a version of church and marriage that makes women powerless--and that this inevitably leads to abuse. Not that EVERY woman will be abused, but when...
On Friday my daughter wrote a blog post about the Duggar sexual abuse scandal. I posted it on Facebook. And both of us had a whole pile of criticism thrown at us. So today I'd like to explain, in my own words, why I think the Duggar abuse scandal matters and what we...