Sources From the Archives… a Cookbook 18 Dec 202418 Jan 2025 I love cooking almost as much as studying history, and cookbooks are some of my favorite historical sources. For example, when we look at 19th century views of gender in…
Faculty and Staff… The Gender Demographics of the Bethel Faculty: 1958-1985 24 Sep 20249 Dec 2024 "In the concept of the Christian body," wrote Carl Lundquist during his last decade as Bethel president, "every member is important and essential to the others. There are no 2nd.…
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…
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 