Uncategorized… Becoming the Pastor’s Wife 20 Jun 2025 This summer I don't expect to blog here very much, as I start to write the final set of essays that will conclude this digital project. But it occurred to…
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…
Sources… From the Archives… Seminary Women in 1994 10 Jan 2025 While my sabbatical is now over, I'll continue to conduct research this spring and finish writing my women's history of Bethel University over the summer. I've been very happy with…
Students… Bethel’s First Women Seminarians 28 Oct 20249 Dec 2024 Long before the 1972 start of our project's narrative, Bethel Theological Seminary enrolled women. When Adolf and Virgil Olson published that school's 75th anniversary history in 1946, their exhaustive list…
Women in Ministry How Bethel and Its Denomination Debated Women’s Roles 21 Oct 20249 Dec 2024 If you want to understand how evangelical Christians debated the roles of women and men as the Seventies turned into the Eighties, you could do worse than to use Bethel…
Background… How Do I Write History to Which I’m an Eyewitness? 17 Oct 20249 Dec 2024 I'm back from some sabbatical travels in Illinois and Alabama and ready to start writing again. I'll have new material here next week, but first something I had meant to…
Historiography… Women in Earlier Bethel Histories: “Contribution” and “Oppression” 18 Sep 20249 Dec 2024 There had been a chapter on education in the Baptist General Conference in the Centenary History of that denomination (1952) by Adolf Olson, who had previously collaborated with his son…
Historiography… Women in Earlier Bethel Histories: “Work in the Background” 5 Sep 20249 Dec 2024 Few historians ever break entirely new ground. We might bring new perspectives to new evidence or use new methods to answer new questions, but we are all revisiting — and…
The Women of Bethel 