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...
Beth Allison Barr
Episode 84: How “Biblical Womanhood” Became Gospel Truth
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
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
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...
This Christian devotional, written by historians, will make a great Christmas gift!
I am honored to have contributed to this amazing devotional. My Conference on Faith and History colleagues Chris Gehrz and Beth Allison Barr are the editors. Here is a description from Baylor University Press: Join over forty Christian historians as...
Have Evangelicals Ignored Women’s History?
Baylor University historian Beth Allison Barr makes a strong case in a recent piece at The Anxious Bench. Here is a taste: Just last Spring, Chesna Hinkley published an illuminating article about how poorly evangelicals have preserved the history of women. After...
Watch the Plenary Lectures from the 2018 Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History
The biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History took place on October 3-6, 2018. I am honored to have served as the program chair for the meeting. Lectures by Margaret Bendroth, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Beth Allison Barr, and Jemar...
Reflections on the 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History
The 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History is over. As program chair, I spent most of the weekend pinch-hitting for folks who were unable to come and making sure our plenary speakers were comfortable. This is...