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The Women of Bethel

A Digital History of a Christian University

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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…
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…

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