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Beth Allison Barr

About that Beth Allison Barr blurb

John Fea   |  February 10, 2024

People are wondering how, in my recent piece in The Atlantic, I could be critical of Beth Allison Barr’s book The Making of Biblical Womanhood after I wrote a blurb endorsing it when it first appeared in print. That’s a […]

Christianity Today announces 2022 book awards

John Fea   |  December 14, 2021

We are familiar with Christianity Today book awards here at Current. Our editor, Eric Miller, won the award in the History/Biography category in 2011 for Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch. Some good historians made the […]

Episode 84: How “Biblical Womanhood” Became Gospel Truth

John Fea   |  June 13, 2021

After a several month hiatus, The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast is back with new episodes. We have some incredible guests lined-up this summer! In this Episode 84 we talk to historian Beth Allison Barr about her book The Making […]

Let it rain: Beth Allison Barr on Al Mohler, women’s ordination, and the Southern Baptist Convention

John Fea   |  May 14, 2021

Beth Allison Barr, the author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth, has a message for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler and the rest of the Southern Baptist leadership going crazy […]

Beth Moore apologizes for her past views on complementarianism

John Fea   |  April 8, 2021

Here is Yonat Shimron and Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: In a Twitter thread Wednesday (April 7), Moore took aim at complementarianism, the 20th century theological framework that argues men and women were created for different roles and that […]