
The What’s Killing Women’s Libido Podcast
It's the wrap up podcast for our What's Killing Women's Libido series! At the end of the month we like to record a podcast that's a little more aimed at men, and today we thought we'd wrap up what can cause women's libidos to plummet--and what men can do about it!...

What Christian Authors Can Learn from Academia
Science often makes leaps and bounds by disproving previous assumptions and hypotheses. Galileo turned the world upside down (literally) by positing that the world wasn't flat; that it was round and revolved around the sun. For centuries Newton's theories were the...

Adults Need Bedtimes Too!
Adults need bedtimes, too. Seriously. I have talked to thousands of couples over the last few years at marriage conferences and at events, and I keep hearing stories about how "we never talk", or "we never do anything together", or even, "our sex life is almost...

Why is Wanting Sex So Hard? Can You Boost Your Libido?
For so many of us, sex is the greatest source of tension in our marriage. Now, sometimes it's for nefarious reasons, like a husband who uses pornography (or a wife who uses pornography). Sometimes there has been major betrayal, or the marriage is just really on the...

One Woman Shares How Being Spanked as a Child Affected Her Sexually
The harm from spanking doesn't always come from the spanking being done in anger, or by terrible parents. Sometimes the harm comes from good parents who spanked "in love", exactly how the church taught them to. When I wrote about the harms from spanking a few weeks...

PODCAST: Why John Piper Should Stop Talking about Marriage
Recently John Piper had a podcast telling a woman how to deal with a "harsh" husband. It was atrocious advice--especially since women in emotionally abusive relationships would listen to this advice and think that it pertained to them (since most women in abusive...

The Sexual Element in Spanking Children: Let’s Ask the Uncomfortable Questions
Can we talk about something hush hush? What if spanking kids is also a form of sexual assault? Hear me out on this one, okay? I've shared a number of social media posts and podcasts about spanking lately, including what the large meta-analysis of 160,000 children...

Does Every Marriage Need a Captain? Do Husbands Need to Make the Decisions?
Do marriages need someone to be in charge? And what does it mean if you assume that they do? Last week Alistair Begg, a big speaker and theologian, posted this on social media:I could say so much about what's theologically wrong with this statement, but I'd encourage...

Do We Understand the Power of a Responsive Libido?
Just because you have a responsive libido doesn't mean you don't have a libido! I make this point repeatedly in our revamped Boost Your Libido course that launches next Monday, but I really want to drive this home today: Just because you don't have what we call a...

Break the Cycle: Learn Positive Discipline with Kids, Rather than Punitive Control
We know that parenting is the biggest responsibility we will ever have. But we've been told such different things about the nature of that responsibility. If you grew up in an evangelical church, chances are you were told that a parent's job is to teach them to obey,...