I LOVE this week’s Bare Marriage podcast! People often say to me, “Sheila, you just hate all evangelical marriage books because you want people to think nothing is healthy but yours, so you make more money!”

What they miss is that the reason I haven’t found many healthy evangelical marriage books or marriage conferences is that they tend to start from the same faulty premise. And from that premise flows four more toxic teachings that support the original premise, but which lead to demonstrable harm in marriage.

We’re outlining those 5 toxic things right now that are pretty much universal in evangelical marriage teaching, and showing how, if we get rid of the faulty premise, we can actually have advice that leads to flourishing!