[ep 130] Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is associate professor of history and associate dean of the Graduate School at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history, women’s history, and church history. She is the president of the Conference on Faith and History and is a member of Christians for Biblical Equality. Barr has written for Christianity Today, the Washington Post, and Religion News Service, and is a regular contributor to The Anxious Bench, the popular Patheos website on Christian history.
This is an episode that has been a long time in the making. I reached out almost a year ago to Beth Allison Barr to ask about coming on the show. I had seen her book called The Making of Biblical Womanhood. I knew this was going to bee a really important book for the way that evangelicals talks about gender roles in the church and at home. Beth does an incredible job of telling her story, which is powerful. She talks about the ministry experience that led her to deconstruct a lot of what she had been taught about gender roles. I too share some of my experience with these debates and wee talk about how damaging a lot of this is for the church. You are going to get a lot out of this episode.
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