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Send us Fan Mail We have the guys back for today's 'Men's Edition' of the podcast! And thank you to Michael John Cusick for joining us today for our Reader Question! Links to things mentioned: Michael John Cusick Restoring the Soul Podcast Our Direct Communication Series (check out the links at the bottom for all of the posts) The Research on Cognitive Labor To Support Us:  Joi...

Send us Fan Mail This week we're bringing you something different. This 'unfiltered podcast' that aired with our Patrons in July was an episode that we ended up feeling was worth being shared on a larger scale. We hope you enjoy this honest, vulnerable look into Rebecca and Joanna's faith thought processes, and that it may spark some discussion for yourself. To Support Us:  Joi...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode is ALL about communicating! Both with our spouses, and with our kids! Links to things mentioned: Brett Ullman's website where he collates amazing parenting stuff, plus his book Parenting: Navigating Everything The Great Sex Rescue Our Direct Communication Series: Why it's hard ; what direct communication looks like ; why it's not mean ; why...

Send us Fan Mail Aaaaand we're back! Thank you for all being gracious while we took a much needed one-month break in July. Links to things mentioned: Subscribe to the email list! The Great Sex Rescue --and the package you can download to show to your church Our definitive podcast on lust & modesty (because I didn't want to rehash everything when we talked about Modest is Hottest) The...

Send us Fan Mail Keith summarizes yesterday’s post on the slippery slope of believing in men’s hierarchy over women, and we address mental load and more. Links to things mentioned: Keith's post on the slippery slope of male-only leadership The Emotional Labor and Mental Load Series , with a podcast describing the issue The Let's Go to the Beach Revisited post The Great Sex Rescue Pastors...

Send us Fan Mail What  fun episode this week! With our wonderful guest Dr Bethany Peterson joining us, we talk all things pelvic floor and how we as women can improve our lives dramatically with more information on this topic! Links to things mentioned: Bethany Peterson and Well-Core Physiotherapy . You can also find Bethany on Instagram. Bethany's post on why we need to explore our pelvic fl...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus and John Wayne-- order it this week! . And follow Kristin on Twitter like I do. She's awesome. Links to things mentioned: The Great Sex Rescue : A great companion to Jesus and John Wayne Katie's awesome video and our awesome romance novels we made up, plus Katie's Instagram where you can see all the covers on her story highlights Our podcast on feeling spiritu...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s talk expectations for childbirth, sex, orgasm, and more! As you’ll hear from the two interviews we did, we were enjoying ourselves immensely talking about how to make different aspects of our lives awesome. Links to things mentioned: Jenn Riedy 'Intimately Us' app! To Support Us:  Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work For tax deductible d...

Send us Fan Mail Mark Gungor claims to be the #1 marriage teacher in the U.S. military, and I think it’s important to know what he is teaching. Links to things mentioned:  The Great Sex Rescue , our new book that has upset everyone The audio between Mark and Lexi. You can also read a transcript of the audio by Shannon Ashley , or a transcript with abuse tactics analysis by Sarah McDugal.  My artic...

Send us Fan Mail We have a fantastic guest joining us today! With real experience on the mission field, Meghan Tschanz is in a great position to share her thoughts and add her voice to this conversation. Thank you for joining us and listening in today, and thank you again to Meghan for being on our podcast! Things Mentioned in This Podcast: Meghan Tschanz's book Woman Rising : Learning to Lis...

Send us Fan Mail We made it to 100 episodes! Thank you to all our listeners for sticking with us, whether from day one or last week, we SO appreciate you being here! And thank you to all those who sent in messages for us to listen to in this episode! Links to things mentioned:  Great Sex Rescue! Michael John Cusick's Site , his book Surfing for God, and his Restoring the Soul podcast Tim Kell...

Send us Fan Mail Thank you to our WONDERFUL guests this week! We have 3 different people joining in on the discussions today! Links to things mentioned: Timothy Thomas' articles, Part 1 and Part 2 Bruce C.E. Fleming's Eden podcast and Book of Eden book . The podcast walks through many of the Genesis verses regarding gender and shows us a beautiful picture of wholeness and freedom Shannon...

Send us Fan Mail Here we are with another 'Start Your Engines' edition of the podcast! Join Keith and Sheila as they discuss some strange things your wife might believe about sex, and Rebecca and Sheila as they break down an interesting perspective on how the men's lust message can mess up women too! Links to things mentioned: The Great Sex Rescue: Our new book, that looks at how ha...

Send us Fan Mail We've been going back in time on the blog and looking at how different eras viewed sex, so this week on the podcast we're bringing more of that conversation! Listen in as Sheila, Connor, and Rebecca break down what led to the sexual revolution and how the church responded to it at the time. Links to things mentioned:  Come support our peer-reviewed research and getting i...

Send us Fan Mail We've got some AMAZING guests joining us on the podcast today, authors/father-daughter duo Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer! We hope you enjoy this discussion on church cultures, and can find your own church that is 'tov'! Links to things mentioned: Scot & Laura's book! https://amzn.to/2OP4Nb9 (A Church Called Tov) Our rubric and scorecard The Great Sex Re...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode is going out to all the parents of teens out there. We know that sex and puberty can be a tough topic to navigate with your children as they grow up, so we wanted to really delve into that topic and hopefully help further healthy messages for the future generations! The Whole Story: Our puberty & sex course for moms/daughters or dads/sons (or single pa...

Send us Fan Mail This is a jam-packed episode of the Bare Marriage podcast! We hope you enjoy listening in this week! Links to things mentioned: The Great Sex Rescue ! And remember to rate and review! Last week's long post on Emerson Eggerichs gaslighting abuse victims --and the podcast that went with it The blog post where Emerson Eggerichs uses the stat both correctly & incorrectly at t...

Send us Fan Mail We simply must change the way we talk about women in the church, because what is happening is dangerous. Links to things mentioned: The post yesterday where we discussed Emerson Eggerichs' sermons in detail Last week's post on the Atlanta shootings and seeing women as dangerous Study showing that non-fatal strangulation increases the odds of a woman being killed by seven...

Send us Fan Mail Let's discuss orgasms this week, shall we?! We're thrilled to announce our new Patreon ! Links to things mentioned:   The Great Sex Rescue The Orgasm Course The Honeymoon Course The Orgasm Series ᐧ To Support Us:  Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work For tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosk...

Send us Fan Mail Another week where we're discussing sex and marriage here on the Bare Marriage Podcast! Links to things mentioned: The Great Sex Rescue — it's doing wonderfully and selling wonderfully! Thank you so much--and help us out by leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads once you've read it! Our survey methodology Books that we liked-- How We Love by the Yerkovichs; Boundar...

Send us Fan Mail We planned to do a bit of a victory lap, and it did start out that way. We’re just really raw with you about how demoralizing it is to see people just love our book and say what an amazing impact it’s had on them– and then have the powers-that-be still not care about hurting women. Links to things mentioned: The Great Sex Rescue Our survey methods Dr. Camden Morgante: And check ou...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the way we talk about sex is just plain, well, icky and weird. We go back to basics and ask for a healthy way to talk about sex that isn’t weird! Links to the things mentioned: The Great Sex Rescue Andrew Bauman To Support Us:  Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work For tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative th...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when women are told: “If your husband is typical, he has a need you don’t have?”, as Love & Respect put it.  If you hear that your whole life that women need affection while men need sex, and women don’t actually need that much. Well, should it be a surprise if we grow up believing that sex is not for us? Links to things mentioned:   The Great Sex Rescue Rabbi Shl...

Send us Fan Mail This week were talking all about duty sex and consent! Thank you to our guests that joined us, it's so encouraging to hear other voices out there with a heart to share this hopeful message of what healthy sex looks like in marriage. Links to things mentioned: Andrew Bauman : his book The Sexually Healthy Man Benjamin Young's Twitter Thread Benjamin Young's ministry...

Send us Fan Mail This week Sheila and Rebecca are digging deep into just how bad some of the advice out there is for Christians dealing with porn use in their marriage. We need to talk about this better, everyone! Thank you to Michael John Cusick for stopping by to help give us an even better look at what healing and recovery can look like for the many people struggling with pornography. Links to...