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Episode 341: What’s the Dignity Line? Feat. Dawn from The Minimal Mom

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we sit down with Dawn from The Minimal Mom to talk about the “dignity line,” a simple framework for recognizing if our relationships ar

Sep 24
1 h 12 min

Episode 340: Live, Laugh, Love with Kristin Du Mez

Send us Fan Mail What if many of the ideas we’ve been taught about “biblical womanhood” have a much stranger history than we realized? We sit down with historian & autho

Sep 17
1 h 25 min

Episode 339: Look Like a Lady--the 5 Visual Tropes of Womanhood that Keep Us Small

Send us Fan Mail What if some of the messages we've absorbed about “what it means to be a woman” have less to do with the Bible and more to do with centuries of art

Sep 10
1 h 19 min

Episode 338: What if God is Like a Mother Too? (Love Like a Mother)

Send us Fan Mail What if the Bible has been giving us maternal pictures of God all along—and we've simply been overlooking them? Today we talk with Elizabeth Berget

Sep 3
1 h 02 min

Episode 337: Why Do Evangelicals Ask Women to Do Such Risky Things if They Say They Protect Women?

Send us Fan Mail What happens when “protecting women” actually leaves them with fewer choices, less financial security, and nowhere to go when a marriage becomes unsafe?

Aug 27
1 h 01 min

Episode 336: The Problems with The Empowered Wife by Laura Doyle

Send us Fan Mail Bethany Jantzi and Dr. Merry Lin join us in taking a very close—and occasionally incredulous—look at Laura Doyle’s The Empowered Wife, unpacking its pro

Aug 20
1 h 51 min

Episode 335: If Men Are Leaders...Why Do They Need Women to Fix Them?

Send us Fan Mail What happens when “Christlike manhood” starts sounding suspiciously like Victorian gender roles, male entitlement, and a whole lot of covert nudging? Th

Aug 13
1 h 05 min

Episode 334: What Should Accountability for Purity Culture Authors Look Like?

Send us Fan Mail Buckle up for the final episode of our 3-part series on purity culture! In this episode we dig into what genuine accountability actually looks like when

Aug 6
1 h 19 min

Episode 333: Good Fruit - Are We Measuring It Right When It Comes to Christian Marriage Teaching?

Send us Fan Mail What does Jesus actually mean when he tells us to judge a tree by its fruit - and what happens when we apply that idea to marriage and Christian teachin

Jul 30
1 h 16 min

Episode 332: When Purity Culture Supporters Try to Rewrite History (Dannah Gresh Case Study)

Send us Fan Mail And….we’re BACK with a fresh new season of the Bare Marriage podcast! We’re kicking things off with a lively deep dive into the debate over purity cultu

Jul 23
1 h 13 min

Episode 331: Keith & Sheila Respond to Crazy Clips (Is it That Jezebel Spirit Again?)

Send us Fan Mail In this season finale we take a dive into social media, examining the messages behind viral clips from popular marriage and church influencers, and chal

Jun 4
1 h 13 min

Episode 330: Men of Virtue with Zachary Wagner

Send us Fan Mail What does it actually mean to be a “good man” in today’s world—and does Christianity offer something deeper than dominance, leadership clichés, or inter

May 28
58 min

Episode 329: Parenting With Confidence Without Messing Up Your Kids with Wendy Snyder

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you know the old “because I said so” parenting style isn’t healthy…but you also don’t want to raise entitled little tyrants? In this e

May 21
1 h 13 min

Episode 328: The Billy Graham Rule and What It Does to Men Too

Send us Fan Mail What if the “Billy Graham rule” (or the evangelical distortion of it) says more about fear than integrity? In this episode, Danielle Strickland helps us

May 14
58 min

Episode 327: For Men Only by Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn Talks Lust and Sex

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Part 2 of our breakdown of For Men Only! This episode dives headfirst into the sex chapter — and quickly exposes how shaky stats and selectiv

May 7
1 h 11 min

Episode 326: The Problems with For Men Only by Jeff & Shaunti Feldhahn

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we dive into For Men Only, by Shaunti & Jeff Feldhahn, and let’s just say…we have many thoughts! We unpack some of its core claims abou

Apr 30
1 h 09 min

Episode 325: I Belong to Me with Tia Levings

Send us Fan Mail Tia Levings is back, and this time she's brought the book so many of you have been waiting for — I Belong to Me, a survivor's guide to recover

Apr 23
1 h 05 min

Episode 324: Who Bears the Emotional Labor and Mental Load for Sex?

Send us Fan Mail Who's carrying the mental and emotional load when it comes to sex? Today Keith and I are breaking down all the ways evangelical marriage culture pl

Apr 16
1 h 10 min

Episode 323: A Step-By-Step Guide to Vetting a Church's Website to See if They're Heathy!

Send us Fan Mail Finding a healthy church after being hurt is hard — especially when toxic churches have learned to hide what they really believe. This week, Rebecca and

Apr 9
1 h 24 min

Episode 322: Why Is Every Man's Battle So Creepy? A Harrowing Example

Send us Fan Mail A close look at how Every Man’s Battle ignores the impact of predation on women and girls–and is just plain creepy! Plus a new study on hostile/benevole

Apr 2
25 min

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What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

This podcast, Bare Marriage, changed my life. Yes, for the better. I'm no longer in a spiritually abusive relationship or church but I keep listening to this podcast and always gain valuable insights and knowledge.

RockinAF · Apr 2025

Balanced, fair, informative, and fun to listen to. This podcast identifies and discusses actual, real relationship topics that the Christian community needs to engage with urgency. The amount of work that has gone into this and the hosts’ books, events, and other resources is truly commendable.

VannahCreel · Apr 2025

This show is a godsend, literally. Deconstruction is not about rebelling against Jesus, it’s about leaving the patriarchal “kitchen” behind and being welcomed as an equal disciple of Jesus. If patriarchy/complementarianism is part of the Curse, why is it touted as God’s plan? If we are to step into the New Creation, we embrace that being in Jesus is bigger than being either male or female. I recommend this show for anyone who questions whether complementarianism is truly biblical, and whoever wants a healthier marriage or needs to face the wounds of the past.

JM28R · Mar 2025

Beyond grateful for Sheila and the team! Absolutely essential part of rebuilding my understanding of faith, family, gender, and relationships after being raised in a fundamentalist cult.

herald.bee23 · Feb 2025

I wanted to like this podcast. I came looking for honest conversations around faith, relationships, and healing. But what I found instead was an echo chamber that seems more interested in tearing down straw-man versions of conservatism than offering balanced, helpful insight. There’s a growing trend here that’s hard to ignore: conservative Christians—especially those who hold traditional views—are repeatedly painted in the worst possible light. It’s not just critique; it’s caricature. The hosts seem to have jumped on the progressive bandwagon without self-awareness or intellectual humility. It’s clear they’ve traded one form of rigidity for another, now confidently preaching their new “woke” gospel with the same certainty they once critiqued. I believe in calling out real harm (and yes, that exists in some corners of the evangelical world), but the sweeping generalizations and the “us vs. them” tone are alienating. There’s very little room for nuance or genuine discussion here. If you’re looking for thoughtful dialogue that respects differing perspectives while still challenging harmful theology, this isn’t it. Ultimately, it feels like this podcast isn’t waking people up—it’s leading them into another kind of dogma, just with a different flavor.

FitnessPro6520 · May 2025

This podcast is difficult to listen to. It is filled with snark and condescension. They come across as the be all end all arbitrators of truth regardless of the TRUTH found in the Bible. There seems to be no room for differing beliefs or convictions. They cherry pick parts of books and rip them apart without context to fit their narratives. The maturity level isn’t high here. So much of what is said oozes hurt, bitterness and anger. Take it all with a MASSIVE grain of salt.

Amy P Littleton · Mar 2025

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