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Episode 205: Do Complementarian Men Make the Best Husbands? A response to Nancy Pearcey

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

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

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Our op ed with Baptist News that goes over the points in this podcast: https://baptistnews.com/article/do-complementarian-men-do-better-a-response-to-nancy-pearcey/

Our initial article responding to Josh Howerton's claim that conservative evangelicals have the best sex and marriages

https://baptistnews.com/article/do-conservative-evangelicals-enjoy-better-sex-and-marriage-a-response-to-josh-howerton/

Our podcast going over these same points (for those who would rather listen!):

https://baremarriage.com/2022/04/podcast-do-christians-have-better-sex-lives-a-response-to-josh-howerton/

Leonardo Cruz' critique of how Nancy Pearcey handled history scholars https://leo-cruz.medium.com/nancy-pearcey-pt1-44f98c2a3602

Our book The Great Sex Rescue, based on our survey of 20,000 women https://baremarriage.com/great-sex-rescue/

The IFS report that showed that conservative highly religious men were far more likely to perpetrate intimate partner violence (p. 36):

https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/reports/worldfamilymap-2019-051819.pdf

The book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

https://amzn.to/3r7BIe9

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast, I'm Sheila Ray Greig War from Bear Marriage.

0:10.0

Where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based. the Bear Marriage Podcast, I'm Sheila Ray-Gregor from Bear Marriage.

0:12.8

Come where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your

0:16.0

sex life and your marriage. And I am joined today, my two wonderful co-authors for the

0:20.7

great sex rescue and she deserves better. Joannaanna Sawatsky, our statistician and researcher.

0:25.0

Hi, everybody.

0:26.6

And my daughter Rebecca Lindenbach, who did our focus groups, who helped write our survey,

0:31.8

and who just wrote all the funny lines in the books.

0:34.8

That's me.

0:35.8

I'm the funny one.

0:36.8

Okay.

0:37.8

And we are here to talk about a book that was recently published, I think it was out in June, The Toxic War on

0:45.5

Masculinity by Nancy Piercy. And so many of you have emailed asking if I've read this and

0:50.9

what we think about it.

0:52.5

And we've been thinking about this for a couple of months,

0:55.0

but we just, we went on vacation and we weren't in the right head space.

0:58.4

And so we thought we would just wait until we're back

1:00.4

and we're relaxed and able to take a stab at it. So we are here to talk today about one of the big talking

1:09.3

points from her book, which is the idea that conservative complimentarian men do better.

1:17.0

Yes.

1:18.0

And so we want we want to just ask that question, do conservative complimentarian men do better. And the reason people want us to look at this book in particular is because she she's called the most eminent research scholar in evangelicalism.

1:30.1

Yeah, and and you know I don't think that's necessarily the main point of this book, but all of the

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