As the Southern Baptist Convention holds its Annual Meeting in Dallas, BWIM will host a conversation about the state of women in the SBC with Dr. Beth Allison Barr on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 7:30pm at First United Methodist Church of Dallas.
At the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting, it is anticipated that the efforts will be renewed to pass a constitutional amendment banning churches from calling women pastors of any kind, and that other issues affecting women including the SBC’s Sexual Abuse Prevention & Response efforts and potentially resolutions related to women’s roles and bodies.
Dr. Barr will join Rev. Dr. Meredith Stone, BWIM’s Executive Director, to discuss the progression of these issues in the SBC and at the Annual Meeting, how they relate to the SBC’s past actions or inactions regarding women, and hopes they have for women in the SBC. The event will also include a book signing at the conclusion of the conversation.
Dr. Barr is the New York Times Best-Selling Author of Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Women’s Path to Ministry (Brazos Press, 2025), USA Today Best-Selling Author of Making Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Brazos Press, 2021), and co-host of the acclaimed podcast, All the Buried Women.
Details
Tickets: $10
Tuesday, June 10 at 7:30pm (doors open at 7:15pm)
First United Methodist Church Dallas, 1928 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75201
Parking available in the Bryan Tower Garage at the corner of Harwood & San Jacinto St. for $3.00
Book signing directly following the conversation. Bring your own copy or purchase one at the event.
Dr. Beth Allison Barr
Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is James Vardaman Endowed Chair of History at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history, women’s history, and church history. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry, and USA Today bestseller The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. She is also co-host of the acclaimed podcast, All The Buried Women. Her work has been featured by NPR and the New Yorker, and she has written for Christianity Today, the Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Sojourners, and Baptist News Global. Barr lives in Texas with her husband, a Baptist pastor, and their two children.
Rev. Dr. Meredith Stone
Meredith Stone (PhD, Brite Divinity School at TCU) has served as Executive Director of Baptist Women in Ministry since 2020. She is an ordained minister and has previously served as Associate Dean for Academics and Assistant Professor of Scripture & Ministry at Logsdon Seminary of Hardin-Simmons University, in congregational ministry, and with other Baptist organizations. Meredith is the author of Empire and Gender in LXX Esther (SBL Press, 2018), along with other academic publications and articles related to women in ministry and religious gender justice. Meredith’s advocacy for women among Baptists has been featured in national news outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, and Religion News Service.
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