by Beth Allison Barr | May 22, 2018 | Opinion
My daughter and I were walking our new puppy when my phone buzzed. It was a Twitter notification from my fellow blogger Chris Gehrz about Beth Moore’s open letter. I stopped dead and started reading. It was a few seconds before I realized how far I was lagging... by Beth Allison Barr | May 11, 2018 | Opinion
Rachel Held Evans wrote a stunningly provocative book, published in 2012, titled “A Year of Biblical Womanhood.” In it, she vividly shows us how “biblical womanhood” is not a constant. It is a culturally constructed concept. For those of you... by Beth Allison Barr | Jan 5, 2018 | Opinion
Female undergraduates have expressed frustration to me over and over again about how Paul’s writings about women have been used against them. “I hate Paul” is what many have said. Ideas about women really do matter, as I discussed previously. What... by Beth Allison Barr | Jan 4, 2018 | Opinion
“I hate Paul.” I can’t tell you how many times I have heard that from female undergraduates. Young women scarred by how many times passages from the Pauline epistles have been used against them: women be silent (1 Corinthians 14), wives submit to... by Beth Allison Barr | Sep 29, 2017 | Opinion
I recently stumbled across a fabulously ordinary story in my own hometown of a Baptist church with a long history of supporting female leadership. It helps counter the negative portrayal of female ministers espoused by some evangelicals – like those shared by...
