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

about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage. And this is the second episode in a row about the book The Excellent Wife.

Last week, Tia Leavings and Marissa Bert joined me to look at Martha Peace's book,

which is one of the worst I can say books I've ever read and is just

so heavily into male hierarchy and complementarianism and honestly does much harm.

So if you didn't listen to that episode, please do.

So that you can get a background of what we're talking about today.

Because I'm going to bring on someone who's an expert

incourusive control to take another look at some of the elements in Martha's

book but also some of the bigger elements in our church circles.

Before I do that though, I want to say thank you to some important people. in our

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