Episode 306: Thalidomide, Bad Marriage Books, and a Jesus Who Laughs

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Happy American Thanksgiving! We're rerunning one of my favorite episodes from four years ago where Rebecca and I talk about what God is actually like—spoiler: He laughs and takes joy in life, not just suffers on the cross. We also dive into why our Great Sex Rescue research matters and address all those critiques about our methodology (and yes, we're now peer-reviewed, so that critique doesn't really work anymore). Plus, we tackle that awful Missouri pastor story about "trophy wives" and explain why harmful marriage advice is like thalidomide—it might help some people, but that doesn't mean it's not causing serious damage to others.

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LINKS MENTIONED: 

• Check out The Great Sex Rescue!
• Gretchen Baskerville's book The Life Saving Divorce
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• Our peer reviewed article in Sociology of Religion
• A longer article I wrote on the Thalidomide analogy

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