The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"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…

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