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"What do you do when the faith you inherited no longer fits? Popular podcaster and writer is a trusted and witty guide to sift through the faith you grew up with and reconstruct a mature, Jesus-centered spirituality that is not afraid of questions"-- Provided by publisher.

"A trusted historian and Baptist pastor's wife tells how the rise of a new and important leadership role for conservative Protestant women, the pastor's wife, intersects with the decline of women's independent leadership in the church"-- Provided by publisher. In Becoming the Pastor's Wife, Beth Allison Barr, a pastor's wife for twenty-five years, combines personal experience and academic research to explore the history and impact of the pastor's...

"The term Baptist originated with the Anabaptists, who are historically linked to the English Separatist movement of the 16th century. Today, the largest national community of Baptists worldwide is in the United States, with 38.8 million members. The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Although Baptist churches are located throughout the country, the majority of Baptists live in the southern United...

Emmy is West Texas through and through: she loves the land, she loves her hometown, she loves football, both professional and her town's high school team, the 'Stangs. She also knows she's a lesbian, and in her Southern Baptist evangelical community, that's going to be an issue, both for Emmy and her amicably separated parents, Lucy and Steve. After a disastrous conversation with her dad, Emmy meets Cameron, a whip-smart grad student from Massachusetts...