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Let’s Start Building the Healthy Alternative to Toxic Evangelical Marriage Teaching

Let’s Start Building the Healthy Alternative to Toxic Evangelical Marriage Teaching

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 6, 2025 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

For years, we’ve been showing how the vast majority of Christian marriage books contain toxic teachings. It started with us reading Love & Respect, and seeing how terrible the sex advice was. When the powers that be ignored us when we tried to bring up...
We Have to Break the Cycle of Shame and Pain in the evangelical Church

We Have to Break the Cycle of Shame and Pain in the evangelical Church

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 18, 2024 | Faith, Parenting Young Kids

One of the hardest things to do is to break dysfunctional cycles. Whether it’s in our families or in our churches, being a changemaker is hard. But it is so, so necessary. It’s the most vital thing that we all need to do. You can be the top politician in...
If We Want Healthy Churches, We Need to Take Risks

If We Want Healthy Churches, We Need to Take Risks

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 24, 2024 | Faith

Sometimes finding a life-giving church means investing in building one. When our girls were tiny we lived in downtown Toronto, and attended an amazing Anglican church that was made up mostly of people who weren’t Anglicans. It was in a historic church building, with...
How a Peer Reviewed Journal Gave Me an Unexpected Christmas Gift

How a Peer Reviewed Journal Gave Me an Unexpected Christmas Gift

by Joanna Sawatsky | Dec 21, 2023 | Research

Sheila here! Our team got some good news recently, and Joanna Sawatsky (one of the co-authors for The Great Sex Rescue and She Deserves Better, who leads up the research side of what we do) wanted to share it with you today! We at Bare Marriage have had a big year. We...

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Have you ever noticed that a lot of common Christian sex advice just sounds really icky?

Sex is supposed to be great. Like, really great. So great that it’s hard to keep your hands off each other great. 

So why do so many Christian marriage books present it as another chore to check off of a woman’s to-do list? 

Why do so many Christian sex books portray men as doomed to sexual deviancy? 

We’re on a mission to change the conversation about sex in evangelical spaces. And to do that, we started by scoring our current best-sellers based on a Healthy Sexuality Scorecard. 

Want to see how your favourite book scored? 

You can download the rubric and scorecard (including quotes that explain the score) here, for free!

Get the rubric and scorecard--for free!