Calling Out Sexual Harassment: The Implications Of Complementarianism
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Calling Out Sexual Harassment: The Implications Of Complementarianism

ByBeth Allison Barr

Meredith Stone, a Baptist female seminary professor, responded last week to John Piper. If you remember, John Piper recently posted the script of an interview on Desiring God. He argued that women should not teach at seminaries. Actually, that isn’t correct. John Piper argued that women are disqualified from teaching pastors because–according to his complementarian…

A Serious Proposal for Academic Conferences: Ban Harvey Weinsteins

A Serious Proposal for Academic Conferences: Ban Harvey Weinsteins

ByBeth Allison Barr

It was during a major academic conference. A male colleague alerted me that a female graduate student had left the reception early. A fellow conference attendee had cornered her and began making sexually inappropriate advances—both physical and verbal. Luckily one of her male friends realized what was happening and intervened so that she could escape….

Top Ten DON’TS for Conference Presentations
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Top Ten DON’TS for Conference Presentations

ByBeth Allison Barr

I both love and hate conferences. I love them because of the free-flowing ideas and high energy. I love them because of the networking opportunities. I love them because they force me to finish critical pieces of my own research projects. Conferences are exciting, intellectually stimulating, and productive. They can also be advantageous for budding…

Romans 8:31, Chris Tomlin, And The Faith Of A Medieval Woman
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Romans 8:31, Chris Tomlin, And The Faith Of A Medieval Woman

ByBeth Allison Barr

“Water You turned into wine; Opened the eyes of the blind; There’s no one like you; None like you; Into the darkness You shine; Out of the ashes we rise; There’s No one like you; None like you” In 2010 Chris Tomlin recorded these opening lyrics to “Our God” at a Passion Conference. He couldn’t…

The Death and Historical Afterlife of a World War II Soldier
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The Death and Historical Afterlife of a World War II Soldier

ByBeth Allison Barr

Last Friday, 29 September 2017, we lost another World War II veteran.Out of the more than 16 million men and women who served in the American armed forces during World War II, less than 600,000 survive in 2017. More than 300 die every day. As the Veterans Statistics page from The National WWII Museum in…

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Burning Witches in Medieval Europe?

ByBeth Allison Barr

Kilkenny lies deep in southern Ireland. Its history lies just as deep in the medieval past. The thirteenth-century cathedral of St. Canice stands next to a 9th-century monastic tower; a castle still sits on the site of William Marshall’s 12th-century Norman foundations; and a fourteenth-century inn, Kyteler’s Inn, still operates in the old town.The inn…