Karen Nuessle

Karen Nuessle is a free-lance writer, teacher, and pastor's wife living in Port Orchard, Washington.

Articles by Karen Nuessle

Shepherdess: My Special Place

November 1985

But I'm me. Do I have to sublimate all my desires, push me underground, and become someone else because my husband is the pastor? Just who am I? The pastor's wife? Or Karen?

The truth is that I can be myself because I am…

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Those PKs: clues to our kids

September 1987

Picture an expectant mother just being wheeled into the delivery room, the anxious father-to-be holding her hand, and the doctor humming, "Nita, Jua-ha-ha-nita." The nurse standing to her left smiles a professional smile and begins a spiel…

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Plan B

July 1988

Plan A is what we plan for, hope for, and want. Working, growing, thriving churches. Active, converted, happy children. Loving, talented, dedicated spouses. Fulfilled expectations—our own and those others hold for us. Plan B is what we get.…

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Five faces of the minister's wife

April 1984

Our author, Karen Nuessle, has written a most perceptive article. As I read it I felt in some respects as if my own life was transpiring before me. Tracing the stages of experience of a minister's wife, Karen says it is possible she will…

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