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April 2022

April 05, 2022

The Five Emerging Factions in Evangelical Higher Education

Will the culture war flashpoints that are fragmenting American evangelicalism divide evangelical higher education as...

March 2022

March 30, 2022

The Feminist-Not-Quite-Feminist

Today's guest post is by Christina J. Lambert. She is a doctoral student in English...

March 24, 2022

The Redemption of Redeeming Love: A Movie Review and Marketplace History

Today's guest post is by Emma Fenske. Emma is a current MA student and incoming...

March 21, 2022

The Scandal of the Evangelical Professor Mommy

When I was pregnant and finishing my dissertation, a beloved dean told me about one...

March 15, 2022

The Book I’ve Been Waiting For: A Review of Aimee Byrd’s The Sexual Reformation

In the final chapter of her bestseller The Making of Biblical Womanhood, my friend, colleague,...

January 2022

January 19, 2022

What I Learned from Designing Women (a.k.a. A Guide for Responding to Complementarians)

It was early Spring 2021. I picked up an advance reader copy (ARC) of The...

January 05, 2022

(Two) Year in Review: Women, Baptists, and Science, Oh My!

Inspired by Chris’s excellent annual overviews of the themes in our blogging, I decided to...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

2021: The Year of Christian Women

As I look over our thirty most-read posts in 2021, I’m reminded of the trademark...

December 22, 2021

Why Evangelicals Need Gender History

Today we welcome Katie Heatherly to The Anxious Bench. Katie is a first year student...

November 2021

November 24, 2021

It’s a Small, Small Complementarian World Revisited

My daughter told a joke this week. "What do you call a priest who becomes...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

The Haunting of Dorothy Scarborough: A Texas Woman’s Ghost Story

This is one of my favorite posts from my Anxious Bench archives. It is the...

September 2021

September 28, 2021

The History of Gender Gaps at One Christian University

Throughout American higher education, women now account for at least 60% of enrollment. The gender...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

Two Questions for Complementarians (and One for Egalitarians)

I am weirdly interested in who becomes the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention...

April 2021

April 28, 2021

A Historian’s Spiritual Reading List

I have a cookie every night before bed. I'm not sure whether this is physically...

April 22, 2021

Unmaking Biblical Womanhood

It’s Beth Allison Barr week at The Anxious Bench, and for good reason. The Making...

April 15, 2021

The Cost of Staying Silent

It was more than a decade ago, but I still remember that moment vividly. It...

March 2021

March 04, 2021

The Surprising, Spiritual Side of Margaret Mead

Today we welcome Elesha Coffman back to the Anxious Bench. Elesha is associate professor of...

January 2021

January 06, 2021

Conservative Men and Women Together? Two Books on Evangelicals and Politics

I ended my Baylor graduate course last semester with a one-two punch of books on...

December 2020

December 09, 2020

Deacons and Deaconesses: A Review of Jenny Wiley Legath’s Sanctified Sisters

During this pandemic semester, I had the privilege of teaching a graduate seminar on Women...

November 2020

November 25, 2020

The Problem with (Medieval) Women’s Words: A Review of Sandy Bardsley’s Venomous Tongues

During this pandemic semester, I had the privilege of teaching a graduate seminar on...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

The Haunting of Dorothy Scarborough: A Texas Woman’s Ghost Story

I couldn't tell you how many times I had walked past her. Dozens for sure....

September 2020

September 21, 2020

Why Evangelical Women Should Mourn the Loss of #RBG Too

I missed the announcement of her death. We had gone out for our first movie...

September 16, 2020

Is Women’s History Depressing?

Is women’s history depressing? It was the third week of this semester when the question...

August 2020

August 19, 2020

Recent Books on Women & Gender in American Religious History

Next week Baylor’s fall semester begins. Courtesy of the pandemic, stress among both students and...

August 12, 2020

Jesus and John Wayne: A Guide for Biblical Manhood

A good book can turn your life around. I just finished Jesus and John Wayne...

August 06, 2020

You Want Context? Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Crotch Shot and Family-Values Evangelicalism

Earlier this week Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University and one of President Trump’s...

July 2020

July 22, 2020

When Harry Met Sally at Church: Can Christian Men and Women Be Friends?

In the classic romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally, Harry famously asserted, “Men and women...

July 09, 2020

About Those Manly Evangelical Protectors…

A couple weeks back, evangelical Twitter erupted with the drama unfolding around Aimee Byrd and...

May 2020

May 27, 2020

Your Lipstick Was Distracting: Course Reviews, Gender, and the Christian College

Today's guest post is by my friend and colleague Dr. Adina Kelley. Dr. Kelley earned...

April 2020

April 15, 2020

Because it is Time for Christian Patriarchy to End: A Reading List, Part One

Back when work clothes were still necessary for work and academics were doing normal academic...