Join Dr. Beth Allison Barr for a little history lesson where we see that the role of the pastor’s wife hasn’t always been this way.
In this episode, you will be able to:
My special guest is Dr. Beth Allison Barr
Dr. Beth Allison Barr, (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill) is James Vardaman Endowed Chair of History at Baylor
University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval
history, women’s history, and church history. She is the author of
the USA Today bestseller The Making of Biblical Womanhood:
How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. Her work
has been featured by NPR and the New Yorker, and she has
written for Christianity Today, the Washington Post, The Dallas
Morning News, Sojourners, and Baptist News Global. Barr lives in
Texas with her husband, a Baptist pastor, and their two children.
The key moments in this episode are:
00:00:02 – Introducing Dr. Beth Allison Barr
00:01:07 – Unpacking the Role of the Pastor’s Wife
00:02:03 – The Personal Impact
00:02:55 – The Intersection of History and Personal Experience
00:13:49 – Women in Ministry and The Southern Baptist Convention
00:14:41 – Historical Context of Women in Ministry
00:21:02 – Expectations and Unpaid Labor
00:22:12 – Gendered Giftedness and Leadership
00:26:20 – Dorothy Patterson’s Symbolic Submission
00:28:08 – The Cost of Patriarchy
00:30:59 – The Patriarchal Bargain
00:33:14 – Burden of the Ideal Pastor’s Wife
00:36:25 – Stress and Expectations
00:38:08 – Embracing Inclusive Leadership
00:42:00 – The impact of patriarchal systems on women in the church
00:43:27 – Righteous anger and calls to action
00:44:31 – Recognizing the unseen labor of women in the church
00:46:11 – Embracing women’s God-given gifts and dreams
00:47:35 – Encouragement to make a difference
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