If you’d like to learn more about the history of Bethel University…
• The History Center is the archive for Bethel and its denomination, Converge. You can explore its collections on ArchivesSpace, make a research appointment with archivist Rebekah Lopez, and follow its social media feeds at Instagram and Facebook.
• The Bethel Digital Library makes available a wide array of historical resources, including photographs, videos, and digitized copies of the student newspaper, academic catalog, yearbook, and denominational magazine.
• The digital library also lets you read earlier histories of Bethel, including the 125th anniversary booklet by G. William Carlson and Diana Magnuson and their Bethel chapter in a denominational history focused on the second half of the 20th century.
• Bethel at War, Chris Gehrz’s first attempt at a digital history of Bethel, was published online in 2014, the 100th anniversary of both the start of World War I and Bethel’s final move to St. Paul, MN. Chris wrote the sections on the two world wars, while his student Fletcher Warren covered Vietnam and the War on Terror.
The Women of Bethel 