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...
Let's face the fact that fundamentalist Christianity in North America is basically a sex cult. That's Alyssa Wakefield's conclusion in Part 2 of her story on the Bare Marriage podcast! Listen to last week's episode, where she explains how she was groomed to obey her...
What if you grow up in what you now call a sex cult, and you marry because your dad told you to? Did you really consent to that marriage? And how does it even happen in North America today that girls are being pushed into arranged marriages? Today's podcast sounds...
Have we made sex--and marriage--into a "Yes Space" for men? And if so, how does this affect libido? It's been a while since Rebecca and I recorded a podcast where we just talked about what we wanted to talk about, rather than having everything all planned out. So...
Can we have a nuanced discussion about porn and the likelihood of recovery? One of our goals for what we do is to help people have "informed consent"--in other words, before they make a decision, they need to know all the facts. We can't be afraid of data and...
How do our attachment styles--or love styles--affect our marriage? This month on the blog we're talking all about attachment styles. So often we think that our marriage problems are about communication, or habits, or normal conflicts. But what if they're rooted in how...
What if discipline and spanking aren't synonyms? What if there was a much more effective way of disciplining your kids where you connect with their heart and it actually BUILDS your relationship? Let's continue our awesome talk with Wendy Snyder from Fresh Start...
Our passion is to get evidence-based advice about marriage, sex and parenting into the hands of Christians. But that means that we have to use science well! In the last of our three podcasts with Joanna where we talk stats, we tackle a few more ways that research is...
I'm so excited to be switching gears for a month to talk about attachment! I've been reading some books in the last year, and thinking and talking to people who are super smart, and I've become convinced that many issues in our marriages and spiritual lives are...
Do Christians have better marriages and sex lives? Last month Josh Howerton, lead pastor at Lakepointe Church in Dallas, wrote a Twitter thread sharing research with 5 reasons Christians are doing better than the media gives us credit for. Matt Chandler, head of The...
We misunderstand women in the Bible--and we misunderstand gender aspects of research! So let's talk. We've got Joanna visiting, so we've recorded a whole bunch of segments about how not to misuse research! Plus today Mary DeMuth joins us to talk about her new book The...
One of the things I enjoy most about working online is meeting really cool people. And one of those cool people is Emily Elizabeth Anderson from Thriving Forward. We met on Facebook, and it took me a while to connect the dots to realize that I had already heard of...
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...