Beth Allison Barr
Beth Allison Barr is a historian, author, speaker, and advocate reexamining the role of women in the church and history. She serves as the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University, where she specializes in medieval history and church history. She earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Beth is the bestselling author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth, a groundbreaking work challenging centuries of patriarchal interpretation in Christian tradition. Beyond academia, she is also a pastor’s wife and mother of two, bringing both scholarly insight and personal conviction to her writing and advocacy.
“My goal is for [people] to realize the things that are good and true and beautiful about the story of how God came to save us—and that those things are separate from the oppressive structures we have enforced within our churches."
— Beth Allison Barr, Need to Know: Empowering Female Leadership and Why It’s Essential for the Future of the Church
