Greensboro College to Host Ward Lecturer, Best-Selling Author and Professor, Beth Allison Barr

Greensboro College is proud to present its Annual Jean Fortner Ward Lecture, featuring best-selling author and professor, Beth Allison Barr, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 26, in Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public, and a small reception at the college’s James Addison Jones Library will be held following the lecture.

Beth Allison Barr is the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University and author of the bestselling, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. She teaches courses women and religion in the medieval and early modern world, medieval sermons, medieval Britain, and feminist theory.

She has also served as the president of the Conference on Faith and History and president of the Texas Medieval Association, as well as remaining an active member of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society, American Society of Church History, and Sixteenth Century Society.

Her other written works include The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England. Additionally, she is the co-editor of The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation and Faith and History: A Devotional. NPR and The New Yorker have featured Dr. Barrs’ work, and she writes regularly on The Anxious Bench, a religious history blog on Patheos, and has contributed to Religion News Service, The Washington Post, Christianity Today, The Dallas Morning News, Sojourners, and Baptist News Global. She is also a Baptist pastor’s wife and the mom of two great kids.

The Jean Fortner Ward Lecture Series was initiated in 1964 to bring outstanding speakers and lectures to the Greensboro College campus to address connections between faith and higher education. This series is made possible through the generosity of the late William S. Ward of Greensboro in honor of his wife, an alumna and former trustee of the college.

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and, spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Founded in 1838 and located in downtown Greensboro, the college enrolls about 1,000 students from 29 states and territories, the District of Columbia, and seven foreign countries in its undergraduate liberal-arts program and six master’s degree programs. In addition to rigorous academics and a well-supported Honors program, the school features a 19-sport NCAA Division III athletic program and dozens of service and recreational opportunities. Learn more at www.greensboro.edu.

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