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…
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…
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…
The Women of Bethel 