I’m still in shock that Becoming the Pastor’s Wife hit the New York Times’ Bestseller list the first week it was out! I had planned this behind-the-scenes post before it became a bestseller as I wanted people to meet the graduate students who worked on the project. Katie worked with me the first year of the project when I was mostly researching and Brooke worked with me during the second year while I was actively writing. I am so grateful to get to work with brilliant graduate students in my job as a professor at Baylor University, and I hope you enjoy our conversation about the making of the book.
Below you can also find a list of the podcasts/interviews/reviews so far related to the book (if you want to listen more!), as well as one upcoming in-person event.
Enjoy!
If you are in the Chicago area, you can join me at the Visual Museum of Women in Christianity 2025 symposium, Believe Her Story: Learning to Listen to God Through Women, at Wheaton College. I will be delivering the keynote, “It is Time to Rewrite Church History,” and a session, “Finding Milburga.”
You can find me every week through April 10 with a new episode of All the Buried Women! If you haven’t checked out my podcast with Savannah Locke and the Bible for Normal People, you definitely want to!
If you missed my book launch events at Fabled Bookshop and Cafe in Waco, Texas, and Calvin Center for Faith and Writing at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, you can still watch them here and here.
In addition to the podcasts below, you can look forward to hearing me on a few more including Saved by the City with
and Roxanne Stone, Footnotes with , and The Holy Post with . Also, if you missed the webinar with me, , and , you can learn about it here.Print Reviews (published):
Waco Tribune Herald: https://wacotrib.com/news/local/education/article_8f838c48-0107-11f0-a765-2332d6ce25bd.html
Baptist Standard https://baptiststandard.com/departments/reviews/books/review-becoming-the-pastors-wife/
Calvin Chimes https://calvinchimes.org/2025/03/24/i-had-something-else-to-say-beth-allison-barr-on-her-new-book-becoming-the-pastors-wife/
Common Good Magazine https://commongoodmag.com/is-pastors-wife-an-actual-church-job/
Englewood Review of Books mention https://englewoodreview.org/spring-2025-most-anticipated-books-for-christian-readers/9/
Review https://englewoodreview.org/beth-allison-barr-becoming-the-pastors-wife-feature-review/
Presbyterian Outlook https://pres-outlook.org/2025/03/becoming-the-pastors-wife-how-marriage-replaced-ordination-as-a-womans-path-to-ministry/
Publishers Weekly https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781587435898
World Magazine will appear in print April https://wng.org/articles/married-into-ministry-1741408917
Independent Critic blog https://theindependentcritic.com/becoming_the_pastors_wife
Podcasts (published):
Bare Marriage https://baremarriage.com/2025/03/podcast-becoming-the-pastors-wife-feat-beth-allison-barr/
CBF Conversations https://cbf.net/es/cbf-podcast-beth-allison-barr-becoming-the-pastors-wife/
Feminist Theology Network https://bsky.app/profile/feministtheology.bsky.social
Regent College Podcast https://podcast.regent-college.edu/1627978/episodes/16643143-dr-beth-allison-barr-the-rise-of-the-pastor-s-wife-and-the-diminishment-of-women-s-ordination
Relationship Truth with Leslie Vernick https://leslievernick.podbean.com/e/pastors-wife-called-or-confined/?token=2c5ff866632e1e6bcc9e119055cd124e
Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2025/03/07/scripture-doesnt-make-rules-for-pastors-wives-beth-allison-barr-explains-why-it-matters/
Sheila Gregoire https://baremarriage.com/2025/03/becoming-a-pastors-wife-how-womens-voices-have-been-silenced-in-the-church/
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