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Article: First Ladies of the Pulpit
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- The Washington Post
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- April 26, 1987
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CHRISTIAN WIVES:
Women Behind the Evangelists
By James Schaffer and Colleen Todd
Dolphin/Doubleday. 154 pp. $12.95
MARRYING an evangelist is not unlike marrying a politician. It's
not something a young girl tends to dream about. Smiling stoically
behind the pulpit or sitting at home with the kids, the evangelist's
wife, like Caesar's wife, must be above reproach-and yet not above
living in a trailer park. And if her husband becomes successful, as
we have learned in the recently revealed scandal involving Jim and
Tammy Bakker, she must learn to bear the public scrutiny that
accompanies fame and fortune.
In this book James Schaffer and Colleen Todd collect stories of
the women married to ...