Beth Allison Barr

1 month ago | bethallisonbarr.substack.com | Beth Allison Barr

For the third year in a row, messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention are attempting to pass the Law Amendment.

2 months ago | faithandleadership.com | Beth Allison Barr

In November 2022, I was in the Texas Collection archives at Baylor, researching an academic article. My focus was Bill Estep, a historian who taught at Southwestern Seminary for more than fifty years. I got sidetracked by a pastor’s wife whose story encapsulates the growing tension between the role of pastor’s wife and that of female pastor. The pastor’s wife’s name was Peggy Bartley.

2 months ago | karenswallowprior.substack.com | Emma Crawford |Rachael Berglund |Beth Allison Barr

Note: Welcome, new readers and subscribers! There have been many of you in recent days and I’m so glad you’re here! The Priory is categorized by Substack under Faith & Spirituality—and it surely is that—but it is also categorized under Literature—and it certainly covers that well. In fact, the ongoing direction we’ve taken here is to embark on a sort of survey of British Literature that goes in chronological order.

2 months ago | bethallisonbarr.substack.com | Aimee Byrd |Beth Allison Barr |Peter Enns

I will never stop crying about the final story I tell in Becoming the Pastor’s Wife. It is the story we used to frame our All The Buried Women podcast miniseries, too. It encapsulates why I am doing this work. It is for the women like Maria who have been forgotten by the history of our churches; the women whose voices have been taken away by our theologies and practices that privilege male power at the cost of women. Thank you, Savannah Locke, for helping me tell these stories.

2 months ago | bethallisonbarr.substack.com | Beth Allison Barr |Katelyn Beaty |Skye Jethani |Sheila Wray Gregoire

I’m still in shock that Becoming the Pastor’s Wife hit the New York Times’ Bestseller list the first week it was out! I had planned this behind-the-scenes post before it became a bestseller as I wanted people to meet the graduate students who worked on the project. Katie worked with me the first year of the project when I was mostly researching and Brooke worked with me during the second year while I was actively writing.