Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Gregoer from Bear Marriage.com where we like to talk

about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage and we have been

in the middle of a deconstructions series.

For the last three weeks,

we've been listening to different people's stories

of why they've had to deconstruct some things

from the evangelical church, especially around gender and women's roles and dating and marriage, and where they've ended up.

And we've heard from people who've ended up in all kinds of different places.

And today we're going to focus a little bit more in a

different way on deconstruction. We're going to have Scott Coley come in and he is a

professor of philosophy to talk to us about some of the methods that a lot of churches and teachers use in the

Evangelical Church which actually keep people trapped and which actually are what he

calls propaganda and that's what we need to

deconstruct from so Keith and I we just recorded an amazing conversation with

him and I'm excited to bring that to you in a second.

Before I do that though I want to say thank you to some special people so first of all I want to say thank you to some special people.

So first of all, I want to say thank you to our sponsor for this podcast episode.

Ryan George and his book Hurt and Healed by the Church that we talked about last week.

Ryan's story is just, it's sad and encouraging and inspiring all at the same time

because he was deep in fundamentalism, deep in an independent fundamentalist Baptist church,

and then he found out that his pastor father had been sexually abusing women and he turned him in.

He had to deal with that he went public with it and it took a real toll on his faith and his family and everything

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