Description: A trusted historian and Baptist pastor's wife tells how the rise of a new and important leadership role for conservative Protestant women, the pastor's wife, intersects with the decline of women's independent leadership in the church.
Brief description: Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, is James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. A specialist in medieval history, women's history, and church history, she is a leading voice in the conversation on gender and Christianity. Barr is the author of the USA Today bestselling book The Making of Biblical Womanhood and The New York Times bestseller Becoming the Pastor's Wife. She cohosts the podcast miniseries All the Buried Women and writes regularly on her substack Marginalia: Reflections on Evangelicalism, Medieval History, and Women's History. Barr has bylines with Christianity Today, The Washington Post, MSNBC, Premier Christianity, Religion News Service, The Dallas Morning News, Sojourners, and Baptist News Global, and her work has been featured by NPR and The New Yorker. Beyond her academic and writing pursuits, Beth is a Baptist pastor's wife and a proud mom of two great kids.