Beth Allison Barr, PhD

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I’m known for that 😂

Thank you so much! I appreciate the encouragement as it is hard going.

Thank you! ❤️

Folk might want to read my @dallasnews.com op-ed related to Hegseth & Wilson: www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Fight back. There are things everyone can do. Trump doesn’t have the power he wants us to believe he has. Be like @harvard.edu and stand up to him.

“Dictators are never as strong as they tell you they are,” he once said, “and people are never as weak as they think they are.”

congratulations!!!

I can’t wait for midterm elections.

Yes he did.

This is such a great & important breakdown of how white evangelicalism continues to infiltrate politics AND it highlights the alternate mindset that most on the left don’t understand. If you wanna reach new people, you’ve got to understand they don’t think like you do!

exactly

Pete Hegseth's wife is playing the role of the pastor's wife in white evangelicalism... and that may be a harbinger of things to come. @bethallisonbarr explains. ⬇️

Thanks Christa!

Pete Hegseth has given me big "megachurch pastor trying to outrun three or four scandals at once" vibes with his chaotic, blustering overconfidence and this article is spot on.

Well, they are amenable still to my work, so that says something 😁

you would like my book

thank you Kris!

Excellent op-ed by @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social on the intertwining of fundamentalist Christians and politics especially as it applies to woman's "roles," i.e. Hegseth's wife. 👇

Playing the role of pastor’s wife in the Department of Defense Beth Allison Barr: The involvement of Pete Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer Rauchet, through the lens of gender roles endorsed by the couple’s church.

Nice to have an op-ed in @dallasnews.com today!
www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

It is a history most people do not know, for sure!

thanks!

I thought the discussion on human flourishing and @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social's new book on women in ministry were very good in this episode.

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Really enjoyed this podcast!

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it was a church blocking the shelter instead of city; church won and shelter had to find a different location

So a similar thing happened in Waco when Mission Waco was trying to build My Brother’s Keeper.

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The Republicans’ Budget Makes No Sense Congress is trying to preserve the illusion of revenue while cutting taxes.

Republicans' "budget will skewer the poor and squeeze out crucial long-term investments in energy, scientific research, medical advances, and children," @annielowrey.bsky.social writes: