"So you think it's okay if women just don't have sex, then?" Whenever we talk about how sex should be mutual, intimate, and pleasurable for both, and that the obligation sex message is toxic, the reply we get is something along these lines--without obligation,...
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The “Let Men Be Men in 2024” Podcast
We often get accused of hating men. When we say that men weren't created to lust; that men can be emotionally healthy and can actually handle strong women, we're told that we don't like men. We don't think that's actually right. We believe that men can be emotionally...
PODCAST: Pivoting to a Healthy Church
Can we really make a change towards a healthy church? For the last few weeks we've been looking at church trauma and how the church has gone off track. I wanted to end 2023 with the lats podcast of the year looking at how we can actually be a force for good, and...
PODCAST: When Religion Hurts You feat. Laura Anderson
Can church actually cause religious trauma? Today on the podcast I'm talking with Dr. Laura Anderson, an expert in the complex trauma that we often find in religious circles. You can't necessarily point to one particularly bad thing; but it's all of these little...
PODCAST: Perceived Autonomy vs. Actual Autonomy
How much control does your church exert over you? As we're winding down 2023, and heading into the last few podcasts of the year, we want to talk about how to get in healthy church spaces, and how to get out of unhealthy church spaces. Healthy ones exist! But often...
PODCAST: A Jesus-Centered Faith vs. Nationalism feat. Andrew Whitehead
Are we losing sight of the gospel in modern politics? One of my deepest desires on this blog and podcast is that we correct the ways the modern church has gone off course, getting us away from the person of Christ, and that we help people find Jesus again. Often when...
PODCAST: If Momma Ain’t Happy–Why It’s Okay to Sweat the Small Stuff
Is it really a woman's role to pretend like everything is okay? To see her life as just being about surrender, as if her needs don't matter? We're going to look at some typical advice that's given to women in the evangelical church, and show how this can actually lead...
PODCAST Stained Glass Ceilings: How the Church Does Gender feat. Lisa Swartz
How do egalitarian and complementarian seminaries differ in how they do gender? Stained Glass Ceilings by Lisa Weaver Swartz is a fascinating book. She interviewed people at two different seminaries--Asbury Seminary and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary--to see...
PODCAST: Are 70% of Divorces Due to Women Leaving for No Reason?
Are women divorcing left and right for no reason? Lately I've seen an uptick on social media sharing two "facts": Women initiate 70% of divorces In 75% of those divorces, "lack of commitment" is the reason for divorce The conclusion being made is that women are fickle...
PODCAST: Bullied for Leaving an Abusive Marriage with Naghmeh Panahi
I first heard of Naghmeh Panahi when she was campaigning to get her husband Saeed, a pastor, released from an Iranian prison. I saw her on the news, and heard about the prayer vigils, and even took part. Perhaps you did too. And then I remember vaguely the chaos as he...
Podcast: Can the Enneagram Help Your Marriage? feat. Christa Hardin
What does the Enneagram have to say about your marriage? I'm a total personality test geek. My mom spent a lot of her career utilizing different personality tools in her business consulting role going in to talk about corporate change, and she was really big on the...
PODCAST: Why Don’t Evangelical Sex Teachers Know What They Don’t Know?
Has modern Christianity become an echo chamber? And is that leading us to have super bad takes on many issues that are really important? Today we're taking a look at a theme that we've noticed in evangelicalism: anti-intellectualism, and a denial of science and...
PODCAST: What Happens When a Pastor Sets Out to Prove Complementarianism?
Terran Williams is a pastor whose life was upended when he was assigned a "simple" task. He was working at a large church in South Africa when he was assigned the task of writing up their position paper on complementarianism. They all believed it, but they didn't...