Between Ordination and Expectation: An Evening with Beth Allison Barr

Join us Friday October 24th, 6pm at the Chapman Auditorum at the Ent Center for the Arts.

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, doors open at 5:30pm Learn more at center.uccs.edu/cse/. No registration or tickets required.

BETH ALLISON BARR is the James Vardaman Prof. of History at Baylor University. Barr’s work considers women & religion inthe medieval & early modern world. Barr’s writing has appeared in Christianity Today, The Washington Post, & The Anxious Bench.

Barr’s 2025 best-seller, Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry draws on archival research & her own experience to trace how evangelical protestantism has approached womens’ role in church leadership.