as someone who is about to be married, it is this kind of perception and behavior that gets me bugged..
She seemed a bit reserved, maybe, almost shy, but as more than one church member put it, the place of a preacher's wife is "in the background."
In fact, said church elder Wilburn Gene Ashe, right up to the very day of the killing, "if you had asked me to name the most ideal couples in the congregation, Matthew and Mary would have been one of them, right up there at the top."
No signs of trouble at all?
i'm not too troubled by the murder in this blurb. this story has been all over our news here in tennessee (not sure why la is picking it up now). i'm bothered by this mentality of the submissive woman within the bonds of marriage and how it is still promoted through the church, the church of christ in this case. ugh!
