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Who Wins the Battle 0ver Women’s Ordination?

by Peggy Bendroth Peggy Bendroth served over 15 years as executive director of the Congregational Library and Archives in Boston. She has written and edited eight books on American religion, including Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (Yale 1993); Women...

The Hell That Patriarchy Promises and Too Often Delivers: A Very Personal Review of Women Talking

Susan Trollinger Still from the trailer to Sarah Polley’s Women Talking (2022). I was silent for something like two years. He terrorized me. Central to the terror was that I never knew exactly when he would come after me. What I knew was that he would. It might...

The Making of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: An Interview with Beth Barr

by Susan Trollinger Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is professor of history and associate dean of the Graduate School at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history, women’s history, and church...