The Preacher’s Wife The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women CelebritiesNovember 13, 2019 By Collegeville Institute Kate Bowler Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2019 Writing Workshop 2016 Although most evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands’ spiritual empires or their own ministries. Kate follows the lives of many such women in a sympathetic and revealing account of their histories. Like this post? Subscribe to have new posts sent to you by email the same day they are posted.