Are porn and romance novels the same thing?

Should we feel the same way about all romance novels that we do about pornography?

That's what we're going to be talking about today on the bear marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Greg. We're from bearmerriage.com

where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your

marriage. And I'm joined today by my daughter Rebecca Lyndonbach. Hello. And your voice is

almost back. It's almost back. You'll notice as I'm talking, that is definitely not 100%, but we're getting there. We're getting that. Yes, we've all been sick for quite a few weeks, which really kind of messed up

our launch for our books and marriage you want, which came out on March 11th. We've been getting

some great feedback about it. Yeah, the launch went well, even though we all got sick and had a

beloved family member die in the middle of it. just it was be honest it was a rough go

but thank you to everyone in the launch team who really just kept it going even when we couldn't

because you guys really kept the momentum up and we're just so grateful yeah we've got like almost

I think about 160 reviews on amazon right now that's amazing um and so fun to say everyone's

reviews with pictures so go check that out.

Look up the marriage you want on Amazon and check out the reviews.

They're super fun.

And then last week, Beth Allison Barr joined us with her new book, Becoming the Pastor's

Wife.

And I want to thank Brazos Press and Becoming the Pastor's Wife for sponsoring this podcast.

I can't say enough good things about her book. Beth's book, The Making Biblical

Womanhood, her first book, was so important. Just talking about how this whole idea that men and

women have different roles isn't the biblical way of seeing gender. And it isn't even the historical

one either. No, exactly. It's something that was made up and really got going in the 1970s when you could no longer just simply argue that women were inferior. Yeah, because before it was women are just deficient men and so therefore they shouldn't be in charge. And there's like, oh no, we realize women are like actual people now. So what can we say instead to make sure that there's still lesser people? And so that's when this whole idea of roles came on. And she showed that so well. And in this book,

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