by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 6, 2024 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
Let’s celebrate being a woman who loves God! I’ve been following the Her Cherch account on Instagram for a while, and she has awesome cartoons that cut to the heart of so much of what we talk about here on Bare Marriage! The artist is Marcia Takasaki, and...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 16, 2024 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
Recently in our Patreon group, a member posted a letter that she’s sending out to the girls (now young women) in a youth group she used to lead, apologizing for teaching toxic things. I thought it was so wonderful I asked if I could run it here. I just want to say:...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 14, 2024 | Parenting Teens
Are women responsible for keeping men from lusting? There’s a chilling and glaring error in complementarian theology; men are supposed to lead women and children – both at home and in the church (with many teachers going so far as to say that women cannot even...
by Camden Morgante | Oct 11, 2024 | Faith
Next Tuesday, Dr. Camden Morgante’s new book Recovering from Purity Culture launches! I’m so excited about it, because not only does Dr. Camden walk us through the 5 purity culture myths that harmed so many long-term, but she also provides exercises and...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 10, 2024 | Podcasts
What if purity culture really did a number on you? We talk a lot here at Bare Marriage about how harmful much of the purity culture rhetoric was: It increased women’s chances of marrying an abuser; increased the chances she’d be sexually harassed or...
