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Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry 4th fiction from "The Death of Ivan"Provides a blistering critique of the narrowing options for female leadership in the evangelical church. . . . A powerful indictment of an unequal system." Publishers Weekly 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 academic expertise to trace the history of the role of the pastor's wife,