by Beth Allison Barr | Aug 17, 2020 | Opinion
The nothingness surprised me. I stepped over the low stone wall and walked down the path to the river. The water of the Brazos River stood still in the summer evening, reflecting only a slightly blurred image of the I-35 bridge crossing into downtown Waco, Texas....
by Beth Allison Barr | Jun 11, 2019 | Opinion
Roman policy regarding independently wealthy women shifted during the Second Punic Wars when a law was passed in 215 BCE to restrict female property ownership and wealth. As I shared previously, the mindset contributing to such restrictions was revealed in a speech by...
by Beth Allison Barr | Jun 10, 2019 | Opinion
A defeated and cash-strapped Rome passed a new law in 215 BCE. The context was their greatest military defeat ever. On Aug. 2, 216, BCE, the Carthaginian general Hannibal destroyed their army at Cannae during the Second Punic War. Sources tell us between 50,000 and...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 10, 2019 | News
Beth Allison Barr is an associate dean in the Baylor Graduate School, an associate professor of history at Baylor University and a resident scholar at Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion. Where did you grow up? In Mexia, Texas, where my father was the...
by Beth Allison Barr | May 23, 2018 | Opinion
Beth Moore’s courage to speak out, even at the cost of her reputation and possibly her ministry, gave me hope that the evangelical world would finally listen. Even so, much work remains to be done in light of the continued support for Paige Patterson, president...
