The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife Harris Shannon
""No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me.""As a twenty-three-year-old singer and the soon-to-be wife of youth pastor Joshua Harris, nothing in Shannon Harris's secular…
Specifikacia The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife Harris Shannon
""No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me.""As a twenty-three-year-old singer and the soon-to-be wife of youth pastor Joshua Harris, nothing in Shannon Harris's secular upbringing prepared her to enter the world of conservative Christianity. Soon Joshua's bestselling book I Kissed Dating Goodbye helped inspire a national purity movement, and Shannon's identity became ""pastor's wife.""The Woman They Wanted recounts Shannon's remarkable experience inside Big Church--where she was asked to live within a narrow definition of womanhood for almost two decades--and her subsequent journey out of that world and into a more authentic version of herself. Entering conservative American Christianity was like being drawn out to sea, she writes, inexorable and all consuming. Slowly, her worldview was narrowed, her motivations questioned,