Hello and welcome to a whole new season of the Bear marriage podcast where we like to strip away everything extra and get back to healthy evidence-based biblical advice for marriage and sex lives. My name is Rebecca Lindenbach and I am here doing the introduction for this podcast

episode because my mother has the coronavirus.

That's right, COVID finally caught up with us.

So unfortunately, even though we're starting this new season,

I am here, but don't worry, the segments for this week's podcast were recorded ahead of time, so even though my mom is sick this week, you'll have lots of Sheila in this episode.

Now, I wanted to let you guys know that this month in August we're doing a fantastic series of the

stories of women the church forgot okay these are going to be amazing deep

dives into women in church history who have done astounding things.

There's a little bit of summer left.

You've got time for some more reading.

So we're going to be pointing up some amazing biographies

of women who are inspiring, who changed the world, who did big things for God,

stories that you probably haven't heard before.

And this week we're starting with Josephine Butler,

and I am going to turn it over to my mom and Joanna as they share her story.

I have my co-author for the Great Sex Rescue, Joanna Suwatsky joining me and we are going to talk about

not the Great sex rescue.

Oh, well.

Although, we're going to talk about a woman who tried to rescue sex and women just 150 years ago.

It's going to be great. Yeah. 150 years ago. So Josephine Butler, I had never heard of her until I saw an article in Christianity today

about her and it was amazing and it inspired me to buy the book

Josephine Butler patron saint of prostitutes and I was just blown away just by

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