Becoming the Pastor's Wife: Dr. Beth Allison Barr

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Dr. Barr is the James Vardaman professor of history at Baylor University in Waco, TX, and is the author of several books including her recently released Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry, which forms the backdrop of our conversation. Register for the Exiles and Babylon conference: theologyintheraw.com -- If you've enjoyed this content, please subscribe to my channel! Support Theology in the Raw through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theologyintheraw Or you can support me directly through Venmo: @Preston-Sprinkle-1 Visit my personal website: https://www.prestonsprinkle.com For questions about faith, sexuality & gender: https://www.centerforfaith.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends, the Exiles and Babylon Conference is just a few days away, folks, April 3rd
0:04.7	to 5th, Minneapolis, Minnesota. All the info is at TheologyInthera.com. If you want to attend,
0:11.4	still room to sign up. If you can't make it out to Minneapolis, and you can also watch
0:15.5	live online. But if you do what I've got, you got to register like yesterday. So Theology
0:20.1	androd.com, all the information is there.
0:22.9	Beth Allison Barr is my guest today.
0:24.6	Beth is a James Vardeman Professor of History at Baylor University of Waco, Texas, author of several books,
0:31.1	including the recently released Becoming the Pastor's Wife,
0:35.1	How Marriage Replace Ordination as a woman's path to ministry.
0:39.0	Really, really, really love this conversation.
0:41.9	Beth is always a delight to talk to.
0:43.7	So please welcome back to the show, the one and only, Dr. Beth Allison Barr.
0:58.8	Beth Allison Barr, good to see you again.
1:00.0	It's been a couple years, I think.
1:01.5	Yeah, good to see you.
1:02.4	Yeah.
1:06.4	So I just got to, because I don't know, I just, I got to jump into this.
1:08.5	This is your new book, Becoming the Pastor's Wife.
1:12.7	And I have to say, I got a bit of a funny story.
1:16.9	So we get set a lot of books from, you know, authors and publicists and everything. So they're always like lying around the house. And sometimes, given my line of work, the books are, you know,
1:21.7	they're more adult content, not in the, you know, non-Christian way, whatever, but, you know, so sometimes my kids are
1:27.9	older now, so it doesn't matter, but before I was like, oh, I got to take this one downstairs,
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