A Review of Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination As a Woman’s Path to Ministry by Beth Allison Barr (Brazos Press; 2025) by Ruth Wilkinson Last year I met a young couple in ministry. He identified his calling as that of being “a Pastor*.” She happily identified her calling as that of being “a Pastor’s wife.” By contrast, years ago I knew a couple of women whose husbands were Pastors, but who firmly made it clear that they were not a ‘two-for-one’ partner in that work.