02543cim a2200409 i 4500 2520542434 TxAuBib 20240826120000.0 r 250813s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781545928745 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book 1545928746 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT17571856 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Barr, Beth Allison, author. Becoming the Pastor's Wife [Hoopla] : How Marriage Replaced Ordination As A Woman's Path To Ministry / Beth Allison Barr. Unabridged. [United States : ChristianAudio.com, 2025. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 54 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Connie Shabshab. As 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. In Becoming the Pastor's Wife, Barr draws on that experience and her expertise as a historian 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. 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 (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. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. Christianity. Church. History. Religion. Sexuality studies. Shabshab, Connie, reader. hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/17569477?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh2017 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ecr_9781545928745_180.jpeg Cover image