A Field Guide to Resisting Temptation | Sarah Wells | Episode 170

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Author Sarah Wells joins Blake to talk about the first 10 years of her marriage, her hopes and dreams that led her to her husband, and the struggles, hurts, temptations, and triumphs they both then faced in their marriage. Listen in as they discuss her book, American Honey, that has themes of faith running through every topic as Sarah faces them head on - sex, isolation, disappointment, and emotional infidelity; not forgetting the blessings and sanctity of marriage, too.

Sarah is the author of American Honey: A Field Guide to Resisting Temptation - available everywhere now!

To connect with Sarah:

Website: sarahmariewells.com

Instagram: @sarahmwells1982

Twitter: @sarah_wells

Facebook: smwells82

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Confessions of a Crappy Christian, a misfit media network
0:11.5	production.
0:12.5	I am your host and resident Crappy Christian Blake, and every week I get to have the
0:17.4	coolest conversations with incredible people about all the things most Christians are still
0:22.4	not sure we're allowed to talk about.
0:24.5	So if you've been looking for a place to land with all your crap, and for someone to
0:28.3	just be honest about what it looks like to walk through this Christian life, well you've
0:32.7	come to the right place.
0:34.2	Pull up a seat, pop in your headphones, and tune out your kids, and come hang out with
0:38.2	me and a guest for the authentic conversations that you have been looking for.
0:44.2	There, hey, welcome to the show.
0:48.9	Thank you so much.
0:50.2	I'm so happy to be here.
0:51.8	You are the author of American Honey, which is just about the complexities and blessings
1:00.0	of marriage.
1:01.7	I always like to add the front of a show like this, remind people because I do actually
1:05.8	have a pretty good amount of like single listeners.
1:08.8	And I think sometimes they'll hear a topic that doesn't specifically apply to them.
1:13.2	And I'm like, okay, don't tune out.
1:14.8	Like don't get this episode because I just know from what this book is about.
1:19.6	It's a lot of stuff that I wish I would have known that it was even a possibility, that
1:24.5	it was even on the table before I got married.
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