The Saint Who Survived
Strand Building, Strand Campus, London
Please join us for a public lecture by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author
Professor Beth Allison Barr, James Vardaman Professor of History, Baylor University:
The Saint Who Survived: What Winifred of Wales, a 7th Century Survivor of Sexual Assault and Beheading, Can Teach Us About Gender and Authority in the Church
Sponsored by the King’s College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies (CLAMS) and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Speaker Bio
Beth Allison Barr, Ph.D., is the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. A specialist in medieval history, women’s history, and church history, she is a leading voice in the conversation on gender and Christianity.
Barr is the author of the bestselling book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Brazos Press, 2021), and her latest release, Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry (Brazos Press, 2025). Her work has been featured by NPR and The New Yorker, and she is a regular contributor to The Anxious Bench, a popular Patheos blog on religious history. She has also written for Christianity Today, The Washington Post, Religion News Service, The Dallas Morning News, Religion & Politics, Sojourners, and Baptist News Global.
Beyond her academic and writing pursuits, Beth is a Baptist pastor’s wife and a proud mom of two great kids.
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