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Marginalia with Beth Allison Barr

Beth Allison Barr, Anna Rollins, Kelley Mathews
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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.

  • 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.

  • Kelley Mathews

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

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