Bare Marriage
Bare Marriage
Sheila Gregoire
Episode 309: Evangelicals Shouldn't Be Embarrassing: The Oklahoma Student's Essay and How Our Faith Has Changed
1 hour 4 minutes Posted Dec 18, 2025 at 12:00 pm.
Introduction & Looking Back at 2025
Full Circle: The Oklahoma Student Essay Controversy and how it reflects authoritarianism
Anti-Intellectualism in Evangelicalism
Why Kids Leave the Faith (It's Not What You Think)
The action step to learning to sit with other perspectives
Keith and Sheila: The gospel is so much bigger than we tend to think it is
Jesus Called Out Religious Leaders, Not "The World"
Seeing Sin as Brokenness, rather than only breaking “the rules”
What if the gospel was about creating wholeness
Our 2026 Plans
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Send us Fan Mail 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 t...