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!

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

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

A Postmortem on the Damage a Marriage Book Can Do

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 19, 2025 | Resolving Conflict

How do Christian marriage books harm? We talk a lot at Bare Marriage about how Christian marriage books can harm people, often by teaching toxic things about staying in abusive marriages, giving sex on demand, or perpetuating teachings that we know are correlated with...

They Told Me I Was Equal, But Trained Me to Be a Subordinate

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 30, 2025 | Theology of Marriage and Sex