Is there a crisis in the evangelical church where women are refusing to get married?

That's what we're going to talk about today.

It's a fun one.

I'm Sheila Ray Gregor from bearmarriage.com, where we're going to talk about today. It's a fun one. I'm Sheila

Ray Greiguer from bearmarriage.com, where we let's talk about healthy evidence-based biblical

device for your marriage and your sex life. And I am joined today by my daughter Rebecca

Lindenbach. Hello, hello. And you're going to have thoughts about this one. I do. Yeah,

it's going to be fine before we get to it. A special thank you to our sponsor for this podcast, Brazos Press,

and the book Becoming the Pastor's Wife, which is just so good. Beth Allison Barr's latest book

showing us how the whole idea that women shouldn't be in ministry is not something which is based

on the plain reading of scripture. It is not something which is just the way we have always done it. It is instead a modern invention which is based on the plain reading of scripture. It is not something which is just the

way we have always done it. It is instead a modern invention which keeps coming up with new

reasons to keep women out that haven't been around forever. And so it's a super important book

because it tells us that if we did this, if we chose to leave women out, then we can choose to let women back in again. And we can

choose to have a church that actually functions as the total body of Christ and that is effective

in meeting the needs of the world and in meeting the needs of the people in its pews.

And inflecting Christ. So yeah. so it is a great book.

And I've written a number of articles about it recently.

I'll put a link to those in the podcast notes too, but please pick it up.

So important.

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