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Beth Allison Barr is the James Vardaman Prof. of History at Baylor University. Barr’s work considers women & religion inthe medieval & early modern world. Barr’s writing has appeared in Christianity Today, The Washington Post, & The Anxious Bench.

Barr’s 2025 best-seller, Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry draws on archival research & her own experience to trace how evangelical protestantism has approached womens’ role in church leadership.