Quantitative… The Quantitative History of Women’s Enrollment at Bethel 13 May 2025 It was one of my first questions when I conceived the idea of writing a women's history of Bethel, yet I haven't fully addressed it yet: How has women's enrollment…
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…
Methodology The Problem of Periodization 27 Aug 20249 Dec 2024 When do you start the story of the women of Bethel University? Most Bethel stories trace their way back to 1871, the year that sailor-pastor-scholar John Alexis Edgren founded a…
The Women of Bethel 