Are Women Human in Christian Academia?
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Are Women Human in Christian Academia?

ByBeth Allison Barr

Recently, Karen Swallow Prior spoke out against the “Billy Graham rule”–married men distancing themselves from women to avoid temptation and the appearance of evil. For those of you who missed Prior’s article, she eloquently argued that good moral character is better than rigid behavioral rules. As she writes, “Virtue ethics relies on moral character that…

Margaret Mead: Christian, Pro-life Feminist
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Margaret Mead: Christian, Pro-life Feminist

ByBeth Allison Barr

Today we are pleased to welcome Elesha Coffman to the Anxious Bench. Elesha is an Assistant Professor of History at Baylor University. Her first book, The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline, was published by Oxford UP in 2013 and her current book project is a spiritual biography of Margaret Mead. “These…

No Room in Wayne Grudem’s World for a Female President
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No Room in Wayne Grudem’s World for a Female President

ByBeth Allison Barr

In a stunning statement, Wayne Grudem–Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies at Phoenix Seminary, former professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and co-founder of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood–pledged his wholehearted support of Donald Trump. “[M]y conscience, and my considered moral judgment tell me that I must vote for Donald Trump as…

Silenced Women–Modern Lessons from an Ancient Murder
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Silenced Women–Modern Lessons from an Ancient Murder

ByBeth Allison Barr

In the second century A.D., the pregnant wife of a prosperous Greek politician died from a vicious assault. Appia Annia Regilla Atilia Caudicia Tertulla, or Regilla, was born into an affluent Roman family in 125 A.D.; she married the Greek politician Herodes Atticus, also from an affluent family, around 140 (when she was 15); and…