Private Lives of Ministers' Wives

by Liz Greenbacker and Reverend Sherry Taylor

She's unsophisticated, plain, dowdy, selfless, unassuming, timid; the perfect wife, mother and church member—the ultimate Goody Two Shoes. She's the minister's wife.

But is she really that perfect?

Liz Greenbacker and Reverend Sherry Taylor bare the secret lives of the women of the parsonages—imperfect personalities with real problems and prejudices.

On no other family occupation does public scrutiny focus as intently as it does on the ministry. Yet, despite this fish bowl existence, the congregation rarely glimpses the real human being that is the minister's wife. Cleverly hidden behind the established stereotype, her real personality exists almost in a void.

Private Lives of Ministers' Wives will throw open the doors to the vestry and flesh out the blurry image of the women behind the men who would be perfect.

"Cracks apart the stereotype of the minister's wife."
— Publishers Weekly

"Absorbing and compelling."
— Library Journal

"A realistic guide to the care and nurture of clergy and their families."
— Record Journal

A New Horizon Press Release
Women's Issues
6 x 9, 348 pages
LC# 91-66360, world rights
ISBN: 0-88282-173-3 (pb), $15.95