Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry By Beth Allison Barr Material:Soft Cover her days full of hard

her days full of hard work and terrifying abuse

Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent

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As the United States once again finds itself embroiled in heated disputes over women’s bodily autonomy—disputes in which adoption plays a central role—Wellington’s book offers a unique and much-needed frame of reference

Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament

Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry By Beth Allison Barr Material:Soft Cover her days full of hardBeth 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 her 25 years of experience as a pastor's wife and her scholarship as a historian to trace the role of the pastor's wife, showing how it both helped and hurt women in conservative Protestant traditions. While they gained an important leadership role, it came at a deep cost: losing independent church leadership