Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry By Beth Allison Barr Material:Hard Cover Ainsley must do what it

Ainsley must do what it takes to put out the fire their arrangement ignited

Was this a natural death

I avoided everyone

Except that Annie herself has vanished

she can’t turn down a chance at the whopping cash prize that could send her sister to college

Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry By Beth Allison Barr Material:Hard Cover Ainsley must do what itBeth 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