Episode 271: The Submissive Wife: The Right Way to Love Your Husband (w/ Mary Stanford)

Submission. A word that is a instant red flag to many modern women. It sounds like a rule to be enforced, and a way a husband can get his way no matter what. But, it’s so much more than that.

Today we are joined by Dr. Mary Stanford, a theology professor from Christendom College, a wife of 26 years, a mother of 7, and the author of “The Obedience Paradox: Finding True Freedom in Marriage”. Today we discuss what the Church really asks of wives and husbands and wives, why obedience and freedom are not opposites, and what a husband has to give before his leadership can be received.

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