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I chose to leave and (as promised) was ostracized. As a member of the Church of Christ I have to disagree with the other reviewer. The Pastor's Wife: The Story of a Minister and the Shocking Death That Divided a Family, by author and novelist Diane Fanning, is a true crime account of Pastor Matthew Winkler, who was found fatally wounded from a shotgun blast to his back in 2006 at his Fourth Street Church of Christ parsonage in Selmer, Tennessee.The book was released by St. Martin's True Crime Library in November 2008.
I would have to add that maybe….I never once in a million years thought I would be a pastors wife. My ex treated me okay (in public) behind closed doors, I too was subjected to verbal abuse both by him and his parents.
I also liked little bits like the woman prosecutor saying, when she receives notice that the wife and her attorney are going to present spousal abuse as a defense, "I wonder what took them so long." That's what Hollywood thinks of Southerners!
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The story deserved a better movie, but this one isn't bad, and Michael Shanks is marvelously understated as Matthew even though Lifetime did the abused-wife schtick much better in "Black and Blue" (in which the authority figure the wife didn't dare report as a spousal abuse was a cop instead of a minister). 12 out of 22 found this helpful.
The wedding vows too are fairly accurate in as much as the 'love, honour and obey' that were originally 'standard' vows. This true life case appeared in the news a lot - Mary Winkler a young mother of 3 daughters shot and killed her seemingly kind loving pastor husband in the back in bed. The Pastor's Wife portrays a fairly accurate account of the women in my church who firmly believe that the men in the family have the final say.
There is no conditioning in the church for wives to be underlings and take abuse. who got what he deserved when his wife shot him.
She claimed abuse. Basically (without giving the story away) the wife shoots the husband. 11 out of 25 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? The pastor (or minister) in my church, although young was not (to my knowledge) violent, nor abusive.
I chose to leave and (as promised) was ostracized.
Was this review helpful? The story deserved a better movie, but this one isn't bad, and Michael Shanks is marvelously understated as Matthew even though Lifetime did the abused-wife schtick much better in "Black and Blue" (in which the authority figure the wife didn't dare report as a spousal abuse was a cop instead of a minister). Was this review helpful?
I also hated the scene of their wedding.
Free shipping for many products! 1 out of 2 found this helpful. My ex treated me okay (in public) behind closed doors, I too was subjected to verbal abuse both by him and his parents. The minister in my church did inform me that if I chose to 'abandon' the marriage, I too would be ostracized by the church. His views were outdated though, because he constantly informed me that no matter how I was treated (or ill-treated), my role as wife was to be submissive, understanding and non-judgemental. The film has a lot of good aspects, notably the way it establishes how the authoritarian beliefs of the Church of Christ conditioned the events -- how the husband could literally believe his wife should submit to him and meekly accept him even when he hit her for trivial reasons, and also why his dark side would reveal itself in surfing for porn on the Net and ultimately in making his wife dress like a hooker before he could have sex with her (all those religious hang-ups about sex being only to make babies, not to have fun!). 12 out of 22 found this helpful. That is hogwash. The pastor (or minister) in my church, although young was not (to my knowledge) violent, nor abusive. I didn't really keep up with this trial, but I wonder how much conjecture and untruths were added to this film. Was this review helpful? Love this and so true from my ne Pastors wife to another! Was this review helpful? Robert L. Freedman (teleplay)
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