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Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry

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Taking on the unique lens of the role a pastor's wife serves in the church and the community, this is equal parts actionable insights into the role as it is a history of its origins.

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"A blistering critique of the narrowing options for female leadership in the evangelical church. . . . A powerful indictment of an unequal system."—Publishers Weekly

As a pastor's wife for twenty-five years, Beth Allison Barr has lived with assumptions about what she should do and who she should be.

In Becoming the Pastor's Wife, Barr draws on that experience and her academic expertise to trace the history of th...