What does healthy Christian community look like? And what are we missing? If you're someone as we go into Holy Week who is saying, I just want to be excited

about going to church, I want to feel known. I want to feel like when I go, people know who I am

and they're excited to see me and I'm excited to see them, what are the missing ingredients that are

stopping us from getting there? That's the conversation we're going to have today on the Bear Marriage podcast.

Hi, I'm Sheila Ray Gregor from Baremarriage.com,

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

And today, one of my favorite people.

She's so brave.

Amy Bird is going to be joining us talking about her book, Saving Face.

And before we bring her on,

I want to say a thank you to our community that makes my life wonderful on the internet. And that's

our patrons who support us for as little as $5 a month, sometimes a little bit more. And that gets

them access to our wonderful Facebook group. Their support helps us fund some of our staff and

supported our research. And if you would like to give and get a tax deductible receipt within

the United States, you can also give through the Good Fruit Faith Initiative of the Bosco Foundation.

And we have those links in the podcast notes. Also, please remember, you know, one of the problems with relying

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