HeyJaredSheila Wray Gregoire
Author, podcaster, and researcher at Bare Marriage. Changing the evangelical convo about sex and marriage to something healthy, biblical, and evidence-based.
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How Do Complementarians Get Away with Saying They Protect Women? (opens the original)
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This week pastor Brian Sauve went viral for saying that women shouldn’t be allowed unfettered access to the internet.Women need men, you see, to curate the content they’re consuming. They can’t be trusted on their own.He also said that the biggest problem facing the country right now is—wait for it—women going to college. His solution to this? He wrote a song telling them to have babies instead. (April Ajoy did a great spoof on it here.)Doug Wilson, Dale Partridge, and
TGC, Kristin Du Mez, and Penis Homes (opens the original)
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Defensiveness is not a good look.And a lot of evangelicals are awfully defensive. This week ’ long-anticipated book Live Laugh Love launched. Kristin connects the dots of all the different movements and events that created the modern expression of women in evangelicalism. (With thanks to my Patreon Reba who made this graphic!)<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wthQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s
7 Double Standards in the Bedroom that Evangelicalism Drives Home (opens the original)
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EVANGELICALISM HAS HUGE DOUBLE STANDARDS OF SEXUAL EXPECTATIONS IN MARRIAGE.One of the things we tried to drive home in The Marriage You Want is that the biggest killer of marriage is entitlement. When you think you’re owed something from your spouse without you having to put in commensurate work for it, you’re being entitled.Now, entitlement is different from having <a href="https://baremarriage.com/2023/01/expectations-in-marriage-4-things-should-expect
How Every Man’s Battle Led to Death of a Pastor’s Wife (opens the original)
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The strangest thing about watching Netflix’s Death of a Pastor’s Wife is how familiar it all feels.Our family has been attending an Anglican Church since COVID ended. We haven’t been in a typical evangelical church for over 7 years. We left because of trauma and grief about how the church has ignored the injustice of the way women have been treated. Yet I felt, watching the documentary, that Hollywood had learned the secret language that evangelicals share. They had uncovered what makes us feel
Should the Marriage Be Prioritized Over the Kids? (opens the original)
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One of the most common pieces of marriage advice you’ll hear in evangelical circles is “your husband comes before the kids.”It’s constant, and we’re always reminded that one day the kids will leave home, but your husband will still be there. He needs to be the priority.You know what we don’t hear? “Husbands, your wife has just given birth, and her body has gone through more trauma that it likely ever will again, except when she has more children. Her hormones have dropped precipitously. She isn’
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