Becoming the Pastor's Wife
How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry
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- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781587435898
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 8.5
- Pub. Date
- Mar 2025
- SRP
- $24.99
- Carton Quantity
- 30
- Number of pages
- 256
About
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 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 opportunities and strengthening a gender hierarchy that prioritized male careers.
Barr examines the connection between the decline of female ordination and the rise of the role of pastor's wife in the evangelical church, tracing its patterns in the larger history of Christian women's leadership. By expertly blending historical and personal narrative, she equips pastors' wives to better advocate for themselves while helping the church to understand the origins of the role as well as the historical reality of ordained women.
The Author
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Dust in the Wind Photography Beth Allison Barr
Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is James Vardaman Endowed Chair of History at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history, women's history, and church history. She is the author of the USA...
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