Because We Have Made God Too Small: A Baylor Professor’s Apology to Kaitlin Curtice
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Because We Have Made God Too Small: A Baylor Professor’s Apology to Kaitlin Curtice

ByBeth Allison Barr

The chair scraped next to me. It was 2:30 on Friday afternoon—time for our scheduled break. For three years I have been writing every Friday afternoon with a group of faculty women, blocking our calendars and ignoring emails. For three years I break with them for 15 minutes, pulling our chairs into a small circle….

The Weight of Words–Medieval Jangling to Modern Tweeting
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The Weight of Words–Medieval Jangling to Modern Tweeting

ByBeth Allison Barr

I am so pleased to welcome back Lynneth Miller Renberg. Lynneth is an assistant professor of history at Anderson University in Anderson, SC. She teaches a range of courses, including classes on medieval Europe, Europe in the Reformation, and the history of women in the church. She is currently working on a monograph on dance,…

The Patron Saint of Bachelorettes
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The Patron Saint of Bachelorettes

ByBeth Allison Barr

I am so happy to have a post today from one of my favorite graduate students. Taylor Sims is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Michigan, specializing in late medieval and early modern European and women’s history. She holds an MA in History from Baylor University and is writing a dissertation on…

Christians Must Face The Reality Of Rape Culture
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Christians Must Face The Reality Of Rape Culture

ByBeth Allison Barr

I am so pleased to welcome guest blogger Leslie Hahner, PhD, to The Anxious Bench today. Leslie is a brilliant thinker, writer, and professor. I know this because we have been in an interdisciplinary writing group together since 2011. She has two recently published books, To Become an American: Immigrants and Americanization Campaigns of the…

Disrupting Our Nativity: Two Medieval Differences
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Disrupting Our Nativity: Two Medieval Differences

ByBeth Allison Barr

I love nativities. Every Thanksgiving my mother gives me a new nativity set to display. She gets them from the local Fair Trade store, so we now have scenes crafted by artisans in Kenya, Indonesia, Haiti, Guatemala, Vietnam, Peru, Nicagarua, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, as well as the United States. The clean lines and naked…

A Tale of Two Mennonite Pastors: Siblings, Gender, and How to Disagree
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A Tale of Two Mennonite Pastors: Siblings, Gender, and How to Disagree

ByBeth Allison Barr

Today we welcome Regina Wenger to the Anxious Bench. Regina is a doctoral student in the Baylor History department, currently studying with Barry Hankins and Elesha Coffman. This post was born in her seminar paper for my graduate course, and I asked her to share it with our readers. I want to share the story…