The Minister's Wife
A Memoir of Faith, Doubt, Friendship, Loneliness, Forgiveness, and More

Books that manifest beauty and truth draw me in, magnetically, like a heap of iron filings. I feel it almost physically as my heart is pulled into the pages and I nod in agreement with words and sentences that have me chuckling in delight, or pausing in wonder. The writing that comprises The Ministe......more

You could argue that I’m not the most qualified person to review a book called The Minister’s Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Doubt, Friendship, Loneliness, Forgiveness, and More by Karen Stiller, but I happen to know one minister’s wife very well. So maybe I’ll take a shot. Here are three reasons why I thi......more

I can only describe this as a love letter to the church and all the people in it Karen Stiller has encountered along the way. Within these pages, the author delivers an invitation to find yourself within the beautiful and cracked, real and dear church we all call home. I laughed and cried, and finis......more

As a clergy spouse of over forty years, I have read a lot of books for the wives of pastors. Some, like Gail MacDonald's HIGH CALL, HIGH PRIVILEGE, are classics while others seem to speak only to particular circumstances or life seasons. I skim them quickly and, sadly, forget them. When I read The M......more

The Minister's Wife is a memoir by Karen Stiller that I enjoyed immensely. Stiller details on her own upbringing and how even though she grew up attending church. religion was not something that was the center of her family's life. Upon meeting her soon to be husband, Brent, in college and him telli......more