“Beth Allison Barr” Articles

Maybe our lesson from 1985 and 2025 is to be strengthened in the three hopes of Scripture, in giving the past, present, and future over to God.

Celibate monasticism was a symbol of the radical resurrection equality of men and women—of their symmetrical status as eternal brothers and sisters. 

When the highest feminine symbol within church history was rejected as an idol, a primary example of women’s indisputable dignity disappeared too.