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Episode 316: What Still Surprised Us Making the Love & Respect Docuseries
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Rebecca, Joanna, and I are pulling back the curtain on what went into making the Love & Respect docuseries — including the things that didn't make the final cut. From the biz
Bad Stats, Editing the Bible, and Recycling 1970s Ideas: A Love & Respect Deep Dive Part 2
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Part two of a three-part docuseries deep dive into the best-selling evangelical marriage book Love & Respect. LOVE & RESPECT DOCUSERIES: • Watch the video version of this (ht
Happily Never After: The Curious Case of Love and Respect (Deep Dive Part 1)
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Part one of a three-part docuseries deep dive into the best-selling evangelical marriage book, Love & Respect. THE LOVE & RESPECT DOCUSERIES: This is a video series, so if yo
Episode 313: To Heal or To Harm: Making Sense of Weaponized Bible Verses feat. Steven Tracy
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Today I'm talking with Dr. Steven Tracy, author of "To Heal or Harm," about how scripture has been twisted to keep abuse victims trapped. We're diving into passages that disc
Episode 312: Why The Complementarian Bar for Men is in the Basement
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) We're tackling three really problematic things that have happened recently with evangelical leaders that show just how low the bar has gotten for men. From Jonathan Podluka a
Episode 311: The Misleading Tactics of Complementarianism feat. Lydia Kaiser
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Today I'm talking with Lydia Grace about her incredible new book, Bible Truth About Women. Lydia grew up in the ultra-conservative IBLP circles and went to seminary to answer
Episode 310: Desiring God Thinks Marriage Is Like Peddling Furiously on the Back of a Tandem Bike
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) We're kicking off 2026 by teaching you how to think critically about Christian marriage and relationship advice! Rebecca and I walk through some really problematic articles a
Episode 309: Evangelicals Shouldn't Be Embarrassing: The Oklahoma Student's Essay and How Our Faith Has Changed
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) We're coming full circle from our podcast on right-wing authoritarianism to talk about that viral Oklahoma student essay and why Christians rallying around bad arguments make
Episode 308: “We Respond to Crazy Pastor Clips” Pallooza!
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Keith and I went through 10 clips from evangelical influencers and pastors that have been driving people crazy all year. We break down why Josh Howerton's claims about conser
Episode 307: How the Stories of Missionary Kids Unmask the Myths of Evangelicalism (and Purity Culture!)
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) It's episode 307 of the Bare Marriage podcast! Holly Fletcher joins us to talk about her AMAZING new book Missionary Kids. I devoured it in one sitting. We need to listen to
Episode 306: Thalidomide, Bad Marriage Books, and a Jesus Who Laughs
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Happy American Thanksgiving! We're rerunning one of my favorite episodes from four years ago where Rebecca and I talk about what God is actually like—spoiler: He laughs and t
Episode 305: All the Problems with Complementarianism in a Nutshell--And How They Try to Make it Sound Pretty
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Complementarians use a lot of really nice-sounding words to describe their beliefs about gender roles, but when you actually break down what they mean, they're not talking ab
Episode 304: Francine Rivers' And the Shofar Blew Part 2: What Can We Learn from Christian Fiction?
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) We're diving into part two of our discussion on Francine Rivers' "And the Shofar Blew.” While Christian fiction can be inspirational, this novel reinforces dangerous theology
Episode 303: Francine Rivers' And the Shofar Blew—Let’s Examine Christian Romance Fiction Part 1
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) We're doing something we've never done before—looking at a Christian fiction book to explore how fiction shapes our theology of marriage. Today we're discussing Francine Rive
Episode 302: For the Love of Women feat. Dorothy Greco
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Ever been told you're complaining too much about how women are treated because "things are so much better now"? Yeah, me too. In this episode, I sit down with journalist and
Episode 301: The 4 Categories of Euphemisms about Sex--that All Drive Us Batty!
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) We're diving into the euphemisms used in Christian marriage books and by evangelical pastors, and when you translate them into actual language, it gets real creepy real fast.
Celebrating Episode 300! With the Best of Becca's Bloopers and One Liners
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) We're celebrating episode 300 with a "Best of Becca" compilation! Rebecca and I react to her most memorable moments from the past six years of podcasting—from rabid raccoons
Episode 299: What Does the Bible Say about Divorce for Abuse? Feat. Helen Paynter
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Does God really tell women they need to submit to abuse and stay in marriages where they're being raped and harmed? Today's interview with Dr. Helen Painter is one you need t
Episode 298: Purity Culture, Date Rape, and Porn: plus Joash Thomas and the Justice of Jesus
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Two major studies today prove what we've been saying: purity culture makes people unable to recognize marital and date rape as actual rape, and male porn use hurts women rega
Episode 297: The Myth of Good Christian Parenting
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) It's The Great Sex Rescue--but for parenting! The Christian parenting industry has been feeding us garbage for decades, and Keith and I sat down with Marissa Burt and Kelsey
Episode 296: How to Avoid Inadvertently Giving Your Kids Sexual Hangups
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) We all want to raise kids without sexual hang-ups, but a lot of Christian parents are accidentally creating the very problems they're trying to avoid. Rebecca and I dive into
Episode 295: Does More Sex Make Marriage Happier?
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) We're constantly told that more sex will fix our marriages, but the research tells a completely different story. When couples are simply told to increase frequency without ad
Episode 294: 4 Christian Women Talk Menopause--and Perimenopause!
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) I brought together three dear friends to have an honest conversation about perimenopause and menopause because so many of you have been asking about it. We shared our real st
Episode 293: Better Ways to Read the Bible feat. Zach Lambert
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) What do you do when you WANT to love the Bible, but you find yourself feeling defeated, hopeless, unseen? What if all the things you’ve experienced in church and in the wider
Episode 292: Hear Sheila Answer Men’s Questions about Healthy Marriage & Sexuality
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Recently Sheila was on the Three Percent podcast, talking about what healthy marriage looks like. The hosts asked Sheila questions a lot of skeptical men had—so we thought th
Episode 291: How Professor Neil Reaches Young Men Stuck in Misogyny
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Sheila Wray Gregoire interviews Professor Neil, a popular social media creator who critiques toxic masculinity and problematic topics he finds in the manosphere. They discuss
Episode 290: What Does Authoritarianism Have to Do with Complementarianism? (with a test!)
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) How do we reach people still in evangelicalism about toxic teachings? I read an amazing book called On Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer which talks about how people get to be
Episode 289: Why Fiction Makes You a Better Person (Why We Don't Hate ALL Books!)
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) In this season finale of the Bare Marriage Podcast, Rebecca, Joanna, Connor, and Josiah discuss the powerful benefits of reading fiction for personal growth, empathy developm
Episode 288: Is Sex a Want or a Need?
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) Is sex is a human need within marriage? Let's address the tension between those who see "need" language as potentially coercive and those who feel legitimate sexual desires s
Episode 287: What is “Headship” in Ephesians 5 and 1 Corinthians 11? Feat. Marg Mowczko
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/242918/fan_mail/new) In this episode of the Bare Marriage Podcast, I am talking with Biblical Greek scholar Marg Mowczko about the true meaning of "headship" in the Bible. Marg reveals that the G
