Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Rang Gregwar from Bear Marriage.com, where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage. And everybody, I'm happy. Like, I'm really happy. We've got some

great stuff to share with you today about a new paper that Joanna Rebecca, Keith and I have just

published, Joanna Rebecca and I did it with the help of Keith's

connections at Queen's University and his amazing editing prowess and his academic experience.

And we're all ready to tell you about that. This has just been such a long time coming and it just

feels like we've reached a big goal and we've done it and we are raising the bar on what

counts as research in the evangelical church so that we can make things healthy, evidence-based, and

biblical. And so I want to share with you today in this interview with Rebecca and Joanna just

how we're feeling and what we accomplished and why it matters. And we're also going to share with you just some of the things that have bothered us about what

some other authors are doing with regards to science and just ask us as a church, can we please

not be afraid of truth?

And can we please be a people that has integrity and is honest and doesn't try to

just see our own biases be realized, but actually is seeking out what is happening in the world,

what is happening with people, how Jesus made us, and all of that

fun stuff. So I am very excited to share with you this interview and this celebration as we finish

off 2004. All right, Joanna, would you like to tell our news? We are published. Yes, in a peer review journal.

And not just any peer review journal.

A really good one.

Yes.

Yes, so we are in Sociology of Religion and our title, which had the goal with journal articles

that I always have is to come up with a very punny title and then explain

what it is after that. So here is ours. Sanctified sexism, effects of purity culture tropes on

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