It's our podcast with Aimee Byrd--plus something super fun! I've been looking forward to this podcast for a long time. First, I just love Aimee Byrd, and while we talk a lot online, I haven't had the opportunity to have her on my podcast yet. So this was a treat. And...
Let's talk Non-Toxic Masculinity! Men were not created to sin; and men were not created to be clueless when it comes to emotions and relationships. Today we have Zachary Wagner on the podcast with his new book that I am so excited about--Non-Toxic Masculinity. Then...
Where do we go from here? And what will happen if we don't change? Those are the questions we're asking in today's podcast, as we're celebrating the launch of our new book She Deserves Better! It launched on Tuesday and it is selling SO WELL (thank you, everyone!). ...
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...
Is God's Design for Biblical Womanhood Female Subordination? Does the Bible paint a picture of women as servants, and men as the main characters who are the leaders? Is this what God wants? That's what Philip Payne grew up believing. Like most evangelical Christians,...
What's Wrong with Vanilla Sex? Valentine's Day is coming up just around the corner, and that means that we're going to start to see lots and lots of articles about how to have hot sex. They will be on magazines. They will be in Christian media. How can you have the...
It is not just that the book Love & Respect contains toxic teachings. It is also that the book doesn't handle the Bible properly, twisting passages, prooftexting, and at times even deleting whole words and phrases so the verses appear to suit his thesis. For the...
If the heart is wicked and deceitful above all things, then aren't emotions bad and not to be trusted? So often in evangelical circles we've been taught that emotions are bad. It's logic we're supposed to follow. It's fact. Emotion steers us off course. We have...
It's a new year of podcasts--and Lucy Maud Montgomery joins us for the first one! In her book The Making of Biblical Womanhood, Beth Allison Barr makes the case that the idea that God created the genders with different roles, where men are to lead and women are merely...
For the last two Decembers I've had podcasts where I talk about how I felt homeless about church. Obviously part of that was due to COVID, but even before COVID we were trying to figure out a different place to go. We had been really heavily involved in two different...
Is your church a spiritually safe place? Because I've done so much research on toxic teachings within evangelicalism that have hurt people's marriage and sex lives (specifically in The Great Sex Rescue), I often get asked about toxic churches. If the church taught...
God cares about people that the church has often forgotten. Today's podcast contains two different interviews that I'm personally passionate about, and I wanted you to hear. I came across both of these people on social media, was immediately intrigued, and knew that I...
Can we have learned helplessness with sex? As we talk more about how to get your sex life out of the pit that one, or both, of you have dug for yourselves, I want to talk about a concept discussed in psychology called learned helplessness (which can also lead to...
It's the podcast where we redefine sex--and talk about how it's about more than the penis! Today on the podcast I'm introducing the series we've been going through this month on the blog--how to recover when one of you, or both of you, have dug your sex life into a...
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...