Understanding our stories helps us understand our choices--and make different ones in the future. The last book I read in 2023 was an advanced copy of Natalie Hoffman's new memoir, All the Scary Little Gods. It's absolutely devastating and lovely and completely quirky...
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The All About Obligation Sex Podcast
It's time to debunk obligation sex once and for all. The most common question I get on social media is how to respond to obligation sex messages--"But what do you say about 1 Corinthians 7, do not deprive?" "But what do I do if pastors tell me it's a sin to withhold...
PODCAST: Deep Dive into Shaunti Feldhahn’s For Women Only
One of the books that women report is most harmful to them is For Women Only. When we analyzed 13 of evangelicalism's sex & marriage best-sellers when writing The Great Sex Rescue, For Women Only scored 11/48, ranking 11/13--so the third worst, in front of only...
PODCAST: Do Complementarian Men Make the Best Husbands? A Response to Nancy Pearcey
Do complementarian men do best? That's what Nancy Pearcey says in her new book The Toxic War on Masculinity! Men who believe that marriage is a hierarchy and that men should get the final decisions (complementarians) do best. This is the podcast (and the op ed) that...
PODCAST: Untwisting Toxic Views of Suffering feat. Rebecca Davis
Should we endure suffering because it makes us holy? We have a distorted view of suffering in the church today, and it keeps so many women feeling guilty for wanting to make their lives better. Why don't you just put up with what you've got, because look what Jesus...
PODCAST: Parenting Without Yelling feat. Wendy Snyder
Can discipline and kindness go together? Today on the Bare Marriage podcast we're joined by one of our favourite people, Wendy Snyder, a parenting coach with Fresh Start Family. She helps parents learn how firm kindness works--how we can connect with our kids through...
PODCAST: Barbie, South Korean Women, and the Evangelical Church
We finally saw the Barbie Movie! Keith and I, along with my mom and my son-in-law, went to see the Barbie movie last weekend! Rebecca and Connor saw it on opening night, but with vacations and sicknesses and other stuff Keith and I haven't been able to see it until...
PODCAST: You Don’t Need to Gaslight Yourself About Your Marriage
What does a biblical marriage look like? We're back for another season of the Bare Marriage podcast! And this year we want to look at what it means to live out the Jesus Way of marriage--how it's about letting go of the chain-of-command mode of marriage, which means...
FIVE EPISODES OF THE PODCAST TO SHARE TO CHANGE THE CONVERSATION
We hear this all the time: "I want to share your podcast with friends, but I have no idea which episodes to start with!" And I get it. We put out a weekly podcast which means that every year we're putting out close to 50 episodes, that's a lot of content to keep...
PODCAST: The Brio Magazine Pajama Party!
It's our 200th episode! And we wanted to celebrate by doing something that matters to Rebecca--and to so many of you. We wanted to read some back issues of Brio Magazine, the magazine for preteen and teen girls published by Focus on the Family that encapsulated purity...
PODCAST: Jane Austen’s Advice on Choosing a Husband
Jane Austen has some great marriage advice! Or at least, some wonderful advice on HOW TO CHOOSE A SPOUSE. And for the last two podcasts of the season before we take a month off, we decided to record something that we wanted to talk about, something that we talk about...
PODCASt: 4 Ways Complementarian Marriages Can Go Wrong (Danvers Statement)
Let's talk about how complementarians think marriage can go wrong! This month on the blog Keith's been writing up a series on the Danvers Statement, the codified statement of complementarianism that launched the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and that has...
PODCAST: The Problems with Power of a Praying Wife
What can be wrong with telling wives to pray for their husbands? Absolutely nothing! But when you tell them that the answer to your husband's abuse, addictions, or bad treatment of you is prayer, and that you have to believe those prayers will work in order for the...