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Marginalia with Beth Allison Barr

Beth Allison Barr, Kelley Mathews, Claire McKeever-Burgett, Anna Rollins
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  • Beth Allison Barr

    Beth Allison Barr is the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University and New York Times bestselling author of Becoming The Pastor’s Wife and The Making of Biblical Womanhood.

  • Kelley Mathews

    theologian, writer, editor, focusing on women in church history

  • Claire McKeever-Burgett

    Feminist theologian, creative contemplative, author, and spiritual leader who unabashedly centers and celebrates women in scripture. Without them, we'd be hard pressed to have any of it in the first place.

  • Anna Rollins

    Author of Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl (Eerdmans, 2025). Work in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, Electric Literature, NBCNews, etc. English faculty in higher education for nearly 15 years. Mom of 3.

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