A lot has surprised us in the three years since Great Sex Rescue was published! Today on the Bare Marriage podcast the three authors--Joanna Sawatsky, Rebecca Lindenbach, and me--all discuss what has surprised us and what we've seen since The Great Sex Rescue was...
What if...the people we listen to for advice are more likely to be being abused? And what if the couples held up as ones to emulate by organizations like Focus on the Family are actually in really destructive relationships? This was a sad one for me to record, because...
We're back with Lies Women Believe, Part 2! Last week Natalie Hoffman and Gretchen Baskerville joined us to look at the problems in Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth's book Lies Women Believe, specifically about marriage. But to be honest, there was so much more about this book...
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...
Ready for some new research on orgasm? It's been a while since we shared some new findings in the areas of sex and marriage, and we've been saving new peer reviewed articles and studies to tell you about! Today we thought we'd focus on two that relate to obligation...
How do you act out the belief that women are equal? This podcast takes a fun and different take on a topic we've dealt with a lot--but we haven't really made practical. A few weeks ago we hosted Nijay Gupta on the Bare Marriage podcast to take another look at women in...
What if the sex that is being described by many male authors is actually male-centric? What if the way they're talking about sex actually hints that it's not about her pleasure at all, but is simply focused on his climax during intercourse? That's what we think is...
Are there women in the Bible whose stories you've never heard? There likely are! Nijay Gupta opens his new book Tell Her Story with the story of the four African American women featured in the book Hidden Figures, who worked at NASA for the first space flights and...
Every Young Man's Battle is a dangerous book. Part of the Every Man's Battle series, it is addressed to teenage boys to help them battle lust and pornography. I hear about Christian schools and youth groups that are still going through it with 13, 14, or 15-year-old...
What if you just can't find a healthy church? Or what if you realize the church you're in is toxic? One of our big findings in our research for our new book She Deserves Better is that church attendance as a whole is good for girls. It leads to better self-esteem,...
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!). ...
Have you ever heard the J.O.Y acronym? It's supposed to sum up our attitude towards how we live our lives, and it stands for: Jesus first Others second You last This is very much what we're taught in church--that we come last. Yet Jesus said that we're to love others...
It's definition day on the podcast, as we talk Shame with Jasmine Holmes! Plus some other fun stuff! I find Jasmine such an engaging person and a really insightful writer, who has done the hard work of wrestling with difficult things. Her new book Never Cast Out is...