Episode 309: Evangelicals Shouldn't Be Embarrassing: The Oklahoma Student's Essay and How Our Faith Has Changed

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Send us a text We're coming full circle from our podcast on right-wing authoritarianism to talk about that viral Oklahoma student essay and why Christians rallying around bad arguments makes all Christians look terrible. Then Keith and I get vulnerable about how our faith has changed over the last few years—from realizing faith isn't just about beliefs, to understanding who Jesus actually called out (spoiler: not "the world"), to reframing the concept of sin as form of brokenness that God tru...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Greigwar from Bearmarriage.com
0:15.9	When we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage.
0:20.2	And I am joined
0:21.3	today by my husband Keith. And Rebecca was supposed to be here, but Rebecca has the flu. And so she is
0:26.9	at her house. And I'm actually going to join her in a minute for a talk over Zoom because we really
0:32.1	wanted to talk about for this last podcast of 2025. And then you're going to come back. And
0:37.4	we're just going to talk about some of the
0:38.9	things to do with faith that have really changed for us and our journey over the years as we have
0:44.6	unpacked all this unhealthy stuff and tried to figure out what's left and then sit through who we
0:51.2	think God is. So before we get to Rebecca, yeah, this is the last podcast of 2025.
0:57.2	I know.
0:58.5	And people really liked last week's podcast.
1:01.7	I've had some really great feedback where you and I just went through 10 different clips from pastors and said,
1:08.3	hey, this isn't okay.
1:10.1	And that's what we're trying to do, you know, is we're
1:11.9	just trying to call people to do something better, to something that looks more like Jesus. And so
1:16.7	today we're going to take a look at that Oklahoma students essay and what that has to do with the
1:21.3	first podcast that we did in this season that Rebecca and I did, sort of come full circle,
1:27.9	because it's a kind of neat full circle.
1:29.9	But as I'm looking back in 2025,
1:32.0	one of the big things that I'm the most proud of
1:34.6	is the marriage you want.
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