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Book review: Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How marriage replaced ordination as a woman’s path to ministry by Beth Allison Barr

Book review: Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How marriage replaced ordination as a woman’s path to ministry by Beth Allison Barr

Thursday, August 14, 2025
THIS book took me from one world (sex-based discrimination in ministry in the Church of England) into another: white American Evangelicalism (which, none the less, sets trends among UK Evangelical Anglicans). In that world, readers must understand...