Writing in the In-Between
Today’s guest post is from Dr. Beth Allison Barr, Associate Professor of History at Baylor University. She writes on women, gender, and religion in late medieval England, and is the author of The...
View ArticleWhy a Conference Paper is Usually Just a Conference Paper
[Today's guest post is from my Baylor history colleague Dr. Beth Allison Barr. You can follow Dr. Barr @bethallisonnbarr] We academic types have all been there. Piecing together funding grants and last...
View ArticleHandling Rejection in Academic Writing
Today’s guest post is by Dr. Beth Allison Barr, Department of History, Baylor University. You can follow Dr. Barr on Twitter at @bethallisonbarr Recently I wrote an odd sort of thank-you note. It was...
View ArticleWelcome to New Blogger Dr. Beth Allison Barr!
Beginning this week my Baylor colleague Dr. Beth Allison Barr will be joining the roster of the Anxious Bench bloggers. Dr. Barr is Associate Professor of History at Baylor and a Resident Scholar at...
View ArticleThe Making of Biblical Womanhood: The Introduction
In less than 5 weeks, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth will be published. My writing on the Anxious Bench birthed this book, and so I thought it...
View ArticleThe Evangelical Baptists Who Made “Biblical Womanhood”… and Those Who Tried...
Chris celebrates the release of Beth Barr's book on "biblical womanhood" by telling the story of some of her fellow evangelical Baptists: some who argued for complementarianism, and others who affirmed...
View ArticleA Historian’s Spiritual Reading List
I have a cookie every night before bed. I’m not sure whether this is physically healthy, but it’s definitely good for my soul. This is in large part because the cookie accompanies a book. As I wind...
View ArticleTwo Questions for Complementarians (and One for Egalitarians)
I am weirdly interested in who becomes the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) next month. Weirdly, because I have never been a Southern Baptist. But before joining an Anglican...
View ArticleThe Book I’ve Been Waiting For: A Review of Aimee Byrd’s The Sexual Reformation
In the final chapter of her bestseller The Making of Biblical Womanhood, my friend, colleague, and fellow Anxious Bench blogger Beth Allison Barr writes, “One of my friends, shortly after seeing a...
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