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...
What happens when pastors give sex advice, but they aren't trained to do so? This week's podcast we're talking about a big question: is it ever useful to expect pastors to give specific sex advice? What is a part of the pastor's job, and what simply isn't? If you want...
What if the evangelical church is diagnosing the problems with marriage WRONG--and so offering the wrong solutions? That's what we've been looking at on the blog all month, and there's lots more to come! Today on the podcast I walk Keith through the highlights of all...
What if Christian marriage books are telling you that your destructive marriage is normal? We're in the middle of Marriage Misdiagnosis month, where we're looking at how some of the messages given in evangelical marriage books actually talk about marriage problems...
Should pastors be allowed to plagiarize in their sermons? I'll be frank: I think evangelicalism has a problem with celebrity, as we talked about on last week's podcast. And I think plagiarism is part of that celebrity. It's rampant among pastors and authors in...
Evangelicalism has a problem with celebrity culture. I mean, everyone has a problem with celebrity culture. But it can be worse in the church because we're supposed to put Jesus front and centre, and too oten we're protecting celebrity and ignoring the way of Christ. ...
One of the most frequent questions I've had since The Great Sex Rescue was published has been: "Have any of the authors responded to your critiques?" People want to know--has anyone owned their mistakes and made changes? And the quick answer is no. I wanted to have a...
We've got some wonderful inspiring stories to share with you today--plus a new research study with implications for dating. This month on the podcast I've been talking about women heroes you should know--we talked about biographies of Josephine Butler and Katharine...
Time for another hero of the faith! Well, three, actually! This month we're telling amazing stories of women that God used in history to fight against injustice and show that God values women. Last week we looked at a biography of Josephine Butler, and this week...
Have you ever heard the name Josephine Butler? If you were alive in London in 1880 you likely would have. In her time, she was as well-known as Florence Nightingale, but history has largely forgotten her. This month on the podcast, we're bringing back women that have...
What if your wife has been taught toxic things about sex--and you don't even realize it? This month we've been re-running some of my favourite podcast episodes from over a year ago, to allow a lot of our newer podcast listeners to hear some of the great material from...
Let's talk obligation sex--and how it's a terrible libido and marriage killer! This July I'm rerunning some of my favourite podcast episodes from about a year and a half ago or two years ago, to help those who have recently joined the podcast or blog catch up and make...
I am very, very tired of the "don't be a stumbling block" argument when it comes to modesty for girls. I know that this is a very widespread debate, and I have talked about it before in two main posts: My 40% Modesty Rule Why Don't Be a Stumbling Block is a Really Bad...