If we knew our relationship teachings weren’t developing us as Christians or as married couples, we would examine them more closely—wouldn’t we?

If the church knew some of its “biblical” teachings on men, women, and marriage weren’t helping couples but harming them, they would change course, follow the Way, and offer something more transformative than gender role prescriptions—right?

In her forthcoming book, licensed marriage and family therapist Kensi Duszynski tells her story of how she grew up in Christian culture, once imagining modeling her career after the evangelical experts of her day—and how, through personal and professional experience, she discovered God’s good heart for mutuality in marriage, for women and men, and for the body of Christ.