What if God actually meant for women to have voice in the church and in the family?

In fact, what if he wanted us to use our voices in the same

way that men do? What if he wanted women to be free? That is what we're going to be talking about

on today's bare marriage podcast as Beth Allison Barr is going to be joining us. I'm Sheila Ray Gregor

from bearmerriage.com where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical device for your

marriage and your sex life.

And before I bring on Beth, I just want to say thank you to everyone.

Our book The Marriage You Want launched last week.

It's been out in the wild for about nine days now.

And you all made it the number one new release in Christian marriage.

We've been getting such encouraging reviews back and emails back from people who have read it or listened to it on Audible.

And a reminder too, there's a study guide that goes along with it so that small groups can use it as curriculum or pre-marital curriculum or even just couples questions.

And, you know, our prayer is just that this book upends the evangelical marriage industry because we're

talking about marriage in a totally different way where it's not about hierarchy, but it's

about partnership and teamwork and that works.

And so take a look at the marriage you want.

We're so excited that it is now out there because we've been working on it for so long.

And today we have Beth Allison Barr, who is the author of The Making a Biblical

Womanhood. She originally came on a couple of years ago for that book, which was released

right around the time as Great Sex Rescue. And now, right as the marriage you want is launching,

another book of hers is launching, becoming the pastor's wife. Beth Allison Barr is a professor

at Baylor University. She is widely renowned the world over about her work on medieval women

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