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Why Toxic Marriage Advice is Bad for Good Marriages Too: A Focus on the Family Case Study

Why Toxic Marriage Advice is Bad for Good Marriages Too: A Focus on the Family Case Study

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 29, 2025 | Resolving Conflict, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Toxic marriage advice hurts those in abusive marriages. But it also hurts those in so-called good marriages–because bad advice is just plain bad advice. Here at Bare Marriage we often critique marriage advice that’s given in evangelical circles, showing how that...
PODCAST: The 4 Types of Euphemisms With Sex That Drive Us Batty

PODCAST: The 4 Types of Euphemisms With Sex That Drive Us Batty

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 23, 2025 | Podcasts

Euphemisms about sex just make everything more difficult. And we want Christian pastors and authors to stop using them! And thank you to Zondervan and Dorothy Greco’s For the Love of Women for sponsoring this podcast! Today’s got some funny moments, but...
The 5-Point Faulty Foundation of Most Christian Marriage Books

The 5-Point Faulty Foundation of Most Christian Marriage Books

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 13, 2025 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

In 2019 I started critiquing Christian marriage books. Until then, I had been writing and speaking in evangelical spaces, but I hadn’t read a lot of Christian marriage books. I figured, they love Jesus, I love Jesus, we’re all saying the same thing! But in January of...
Eve in Exile by Rebekah Merkle: The Onesheets Spread!

Eve in Exile by Rebekah Merkle: The Onesheets Spread!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 27, 2025 | Books, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Doug Wilson’s daughter Rebekah Merkle peddles patriarchy in Eve in Exile And not just patriarchy, but downright misogyny. I haven’t taken a look at her books yet, because we have a system for choosing which books we look at based on Amazon sales rankings,...
PODCAST: The Problems with His Needs, Her Needs by Willard Harley

PODCAST: The Problems with His Needs, Her Needs by Willard Harley

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 22, 2025 | Books, Podcasts

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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!