Episode 142: No, Christians Don't Always have Better Marriages and Sex Lives--a response to Josh Howerton

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Society & Culture, Science, Christianity, Advice, Family, Social Sciences, Mother, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Sex, Marriage, Wife

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Last month Josh Howerton, lead pastor at Lakepointe Church in Dallas, wrote a Twitter thread sharing research with 5 reasons Christians are doing better than the media gives us credit for. Matt Chandler, head of The Acts29 Network and lead pastor at The Village Church, retweeted it. The problem? The research he uses doesn’t say what he says it says. Links to things mentioned: Josh Howerton's article The Institute for Family Studies report that he references Knix in Canada ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast, I'm Sheila Ray Gregg
0:11.3	from to Love On. Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Gregg
0:14.2	we're from to love honor and vacuum.com soon to be Bear Marriage.com we are
0:18.0	going to do a huge website reboot very soon. Connor's very stressed out about it he's working hard but
0:24.3	as love water vacuum.com and bear marriage.com we like to talk about healthy
0:28.6	evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage and I am
0:32.1	joined today by the co-authors for the Great
0:34.5	Sex Rescue Joanna Suwatsky. Hello everybody and my daughter Rebecca
0:38.3	Lindenbach. Hello. And before we get started shout out to our wonderful patrons
0:42.3	who thank you so much for supporting us.
0:45.6	We have a number of patrons who have a lot of patrons.
0:49.2	Like you guys are awesome.
0:50.5	Yes, and we have so much fun with them too. Yes, our Facebook group is the bomb. Yeah, it's funny because there are quite a few people who, you know, I actually feel like we're legitimately becoming very good friends with like everyone in the group now
1:03.9	and I keep reminding myself like we have I have so many protections in place to make sure
1:08.3	that I don't accidentally create these major parasocial relationships with everyone
1:12.2	because I'm like I'm we're so much about consent
1:14.8	in our group that I want to make sure that you all
1:17.4	know that you can stop supporting us whenever you want.
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1:32.1	Joanna stats programs which are quite expensive.
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