Faculty and Staff… Women and STEM at Bethel 22 Sep 2025 We're now in the final stage of this project. I've concluded archival research, I'm getting final feedback on my main essays and writing a short conclusion, and I'm making plans…
Faculty and Staff Turning Points in the Women’s History of Bethel 29 Jul 2025 In addition to teaching undergraduates at Bethel, I also enjoy frequent chances to teach adult students at churches, senior living communities, libraries, museums, and other sites. Since they tend to…
Faculty and Staff… Images of Women’s Sports, Decade by Decade 23 Jul 20251 Aug 2025 Early on this project, I reflected on the value of photographs as historical evidence, which "can be especially significant in answering historical questions on which other evidence is silent." But…
Announcements… RIP Dottie Haugen 27 May 2025 Peace be to the memory of Dorothy "Dottie" Haugen, who died last week at the age of 87. After graduating from Wheaton College and teaching at Twin Cities high schools,…
Faculty and Staff The Sacrificial Service of Esther Sabel 3 Apr 2025 As World War II ended in Europe, Bethel Institute completed its financial report to its denomination, the (no longer Swedish) Baptist General Conference. For the first time, Bethel's balance sheet…
Faculty and Staff… Before They Were Famous 26 Feb 2025 At some point last fall, it struck me that the Bethel College of the late Seventies and early Eighties was home to a remarkable list of women who studied and/or…
Faculty and Staff… From the Archives… Social Science Studies 21 Feb 2025 Now that I'm back to teaching a typical spring load of three courses, I've had less time to dedicate to research. But I am setting aside a few hours a…
Announcements… RIP Leta Frazier 17 Feb 202517 Feb 2025 While I'm thrilled by what we've already been able to accomplish with this project, I do have a couple of regrets. One is that we were unable to arrange an…
Background… The Rise of – and Split within – Evangelical Feminism 6 Feb 2025 In 1987 former Bethel College professors Wayne Grudem and John Piper co-founded the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. According to its website, CBMW was established primarily to help the…
Faculty and Staff… From the Archives… an Op-ed 12 Dec 2024 Thus far, I've tended to use this blog to write the first drafts of stories that will likely feature, in some way, in our final project narrative. But once in…
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