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Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry
Beth Allison Barr
Hardback: Brazos Press, 2025
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“Sometimes there are books that transport you back in time. You return to your childhood or your teenage years; you remember the people and the places, the sounds and the smells of your young adult years. Whatever the place in time, with returning comes remembering, oftentimes alongside an onslaught of memories – some good, some bad, and some, just plain ugly.
Beth Allison Barr’s Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Women’s Path to Ministry did exactly that for me: I returned to a place marked by conservative evangelicalism. Here, Jesus looked shinier and more polished than ever before, but here also, patriarchal values undergirded every facet of the church. Complementarianism was not merely a given, but an understood, promised rule of the Christian faith. Unlike many readers (including many of Barr’s intended readers, I might add), although I never called a Southern Baptist church home, the values found in a number of conservative Protestant denominations tells a bigger story about the decline of women’s independent leadership in the church at large. Barr’s newest release isn’t one readers will want to miss, for it exposes the good, the bad, and the ugly of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. ”
— from our review by Cara Meredith
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