Article: First Ladies of the Pulpit

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 ...

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