Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Gregg.

We're from Bear Marriage.com where we like to talk about healthy, evidence-based biblical advice

for your sex life and your marriage. And this week on Bear Marriage, we are doing a special emphasis on biblical.

This week and next week we're going to take a closer look at what the Bible actually

says about women and marriage and roles and all that fun stuff. We have an important

interview to bring to you. I also have an announcement next week on February 8th, our

fixed it for you book launches. for those of you who follow me

on social media and follow my blog you'll know that every so often I put up a great

graphic where I have a terrible horrendous quote that some Christian author or teacher said,

and then I fix it to make it Jesus centered.

And we have a book coming out on February 8th with 30 of those graphics along with discussion

questions and some teaching moments so that you can get together with your

spouse, your friends, even your small group to talk about these issues that really matter and help see them more clearly.

So look for that on February 8th.

And now, without further ado, I would like to turn to our interview.

I am delighted to bring on the Bear Marriage Podcast, Philip Payne, who is a biblical scholar.

He has this PhD from, is it Oxford? I'm missing it now.

Cambridge, PhD from Cambridge.

He's taught at so many different places.

Cambridge Fuller, Bethel, Gordon Cornwall, this man knows his stuff. He's written a lot of books on textual criticism and he's done so much work on looking into the text and figuring out what God really thinks of women and how he wants us to treat each other.

He has a new book coming out in April.

I read it yesterday. I love it. It's called the Bible and biblical womanhood and I want to go through that and just let you know this is a freedom message of what God really thinks of women. So Philip, I'm so glad you're here. Thank you very much for joining us.

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