<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/125f51f9-095e-471d-b28c-ee02ebf1a28c/0E7D3854-94C2-4AA4-B459-827FF29BA055/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070618/28034_Role_of_Pastor%27s_Wife_has_Changed_Since_Ruth_Graham%27s_Era.htm" href="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070618/28034_Role_of_Pastor%27s_Wife_has_Changed_Since_Ruth_Graham%27s_Era.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.christianpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070618/28034_Role_of_Pastor%27s_Wife_has_Changed_Since_Ruth_Graham%27s_Era.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.christianpost.com/img/2C3ECFCE-72C5-4BD7-A869-A0E7C7E27BB2" alt="The Christian Post" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070618/28034_Role_of_Pastor%27s_Wife_has_Changed_Since_Ruth_Graham%27s_Era.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.christianpost.com/img/7B2FC417-CE01-4D13-B87A-F3554209565F" alt="section logo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070618/28034_Role_of_Pastor%27s_Wife_has_Changed_Since_Ruth_Graham%27s_Era.htm"><H1 id="a_title">Role of Pastor's Wife has Changed Since Ruth Graham's Era</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070618/28034_Role_of_Pastor%27s_Wife_has_Changed_Since_Ruth_Graham%27s_Era.htm"><H2 id="a_subtitle">Ruth Graham saw wife's role as a calling</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070618/28034_Role_of_Pastor%27s_Wife_has_Changed_Since_Ruth_Graham%27s_Era.htm"> By <DIV id="reporter">Rachel Zoll</DIV> <DIV id="r_title">AP Religion Writer</DIV> <DIV id="a_time">Mon, Jun. 18 2007 07:54 AM </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070618/28034_Role_of_Pastor%27s_Wife_has_Changed_Since_Ruth_Graham%27s_Era.htm"><P>When she agreed to marry Billy Graham, Ruth Bell Graham said she knew her life would "be lost in Bill's." For her generation, the pastor's wife was expected to work solely in service to her husband and his flock. There was no job title, no pay and enormous pressure to be perfect.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070618/28034_Role_of_Pastor%27s_Wife_has_Changed_Since_Ruth_Graham%27s_Era.htm"><P>Today, ministers' wives are forging a different role, through their own careers or as very public, equal partners with their husbands.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070618/28034_Role_of_Pastor%27s_Wife_has_Changed_Since_Ruth_Graham%27s_Era.htm">Ruth Graham, whose memorial service is Saturday in Montreat, N.C., was too strong-willed and vibrant to disappear completely behind the world's best-known evangelist. Admirers noted after her death Thursday at age 87 that she became her husband's most trusted adviser. But she still abandoned many of her personal goals for the sake of his ministry.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0E7D3854-94C2-4AA4-B459-827FF29BA055/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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