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Dr. Barr joins Rev. Dr. Kimberly Majeski to explore how women’s roles in ministry have evolved—and been constrained—through church history. Drawing on her latest book Becoming the Pastor’s Wife, she traces how and why the “pastor’s wife” became the archetypal woman in ministry: a way to keep gifted women serving yet under male authority. Dr. Barr highlights key moments—like the Southern Baptist Convention’s 1984 resolution barring women pastors—and earlier precedents in church history, showing that women served as clergy from New Testament times through the medieval era .She explains that understanding this history equips today’s churches to reclaim women’s leadership gifts more faithfully.