Hello and welcome to Bear Marriage I'm Rebecca Linnenbach and do not worry you will be hearing from Sheila in just a minute.

She is currently still on vacation slash doing meetups in New Zealand in Australia.

So if you are in Australia make sure you check out the

Facebook page for some events so that you don't miss up a meetup if there's one in

your area. Today's podcast is going to be a fantastic conversation with Laura

Anderson about when church

hurts but first I have two quick things to talk about with you. First of all our

survey is still live and we still want your participation. If you are someone who is currently married and at least

one of you in your marriage is a Christian, please check out the link in the show notes and

you'll be able to take that survey, help us with our research, and we really appreciate it.

Thank you to everyone who's already filled it out.

We've had a lot of you, and I'm really excited to see what we're going to find.

And of course, December means that Christmas is right around the corner or something that my four-year-old is very excited by and that I am slightly overwhelmed by but also excited by.

And if you're looking for Christmas presents for people for stocking stuffers, we have tons of stuff in our

merch store. If you order by December 10th, Printify says that it will be there by Christmas.

Okay, they're the people who like fulfill all of our

merch orders, who print all the stuff out,

who make it all look so great.

There are two whole new merch designs available right now.

The Science Rocks one celebrating that we as Christians do not need to be afraid of research and science but rather the more that we delve into truth the more we reveal the one who is the author of truth.

So we love that one. It was also done by me and Joanna and then also the

Jezebel Club ones for all those women who call out injustice online and

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