"Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry," By Beth Allison Barr, Brazos Press, 232 pages

Beth Allison Barr’s new book examines the divide between the role of the pastor’s wife and the professional ministry of women. This duality underpins her study of pastors’ wives and how their roles have shifted over time.

In "Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry," Barr, a Medieval historian and professor at Baylor University, unpacks the contemporary expectations of evangelical pastors' wives and compares them to the complex history of women’s roles in the Christian church.

She argues the issue is not whether women minister in the church, but that their work is not recognized as professional mini

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