{"product_id":"becoming-the-pastors-wife-how-marriage-replaced-ordination-as-a-womans-path-to-ministry-9781587435898","title":"Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Provides a blistering critique of the narrowing options for female leadership in the evangelical church. . . . A powerful indictment of an unequal system.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBecoming the Pastor's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, Barr draws on that experience and her academic expertise to trace the history of 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 that existed throughout most of church history and strengthening a gender hierarchy that prioritized male careers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarr 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 (ancient, medieval, Reformation, and modern) 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 understand the origins of the role as well as the historical reality of ordained women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeth Allison Barr\u003c\/b\u003e (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is James Vardaman Endowed Professor 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 \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been featured by NPR and the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and she has written for \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Sojourners\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBaptist News Global\u003c\/i\u003e. Barr lives in Texas with her husband, a Baptist pastor, and their two children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brazos Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51187411812626,"sku":"9781587435898","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0e4a3376-9ff1-4506-852c-e5794eea294f.jpg?v=1744641944","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/becoming-the-pastors-wife-how-marriage-replaced-ordination-as-a-womans-path-to-ministry-9781587435898","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}