Susan Ives Spieth Susan Ives Spieth is an M.Div. (PC) student at ATS. In his book, Man and Woman in Biblical Perspective, James Hurley states that a wife should stay and submit to her husband—even if he is abusive. According to Hurley, “she is to continue to live a godly life even with an abusive pagan husband who can in no way be considered to demonstrate Christ’s love for the church.”1 Here, Hurley is talking about the marriage between a Christian woman and a non-Christian