Theology Conference 2023
June 8 – 9, 2023
Okotoks Evangelical Free Church
Okotoks, Alberta
We’re grateful we’ve stayed somewhat connected through online video events over the past couple of years. And we’re grateful for the grace that you’ve extended to us as we’ve worked all of that out. But this year, we’re even more grateful to be offering this event live and in person (with online options)! Facing COVID-19, and so many other strains and stresses being felt by people around the world, it seems appropriate to offer a Theology Conference called:
It’s a reminder and a reclamation of our shared identity. Unity is found in love, established as a model for us by the person and life of Jesus Christ. Unity is forged in peace and goodwill. One important expression of that is how men and women live and serve together.
Beth Allison Barr is the U.S.A. Today’s bestselling author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. An academic by training and a pastor’s wife by calling, Beth uses her unique voice to speak out on the relevance of medieval history to our modern world—especially concerning women in both medieval and modern Christianity. Her work is described as “smart,” “powerful,” and “a game changer” for women in modern evangelicalism. The Making of Biblical Womanhood was also named one of the best books about women in the Middle Ages by Sara M. Butler, the King George III Professor in British History at the Ohio State University.
Barr is currently the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University, where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses, but she also speaks and writes as a public intellectual. She has been featured by NPR and The New Yorker, and her bylines include Religion News Service, The Washington Post, Christianity Today, The Dallas Morning News, Sojourners, and Baptist News Global. She also continues to write regularly on The Anxious Bench, a popular religious history blog on Patheos.
With her ability to connect to both academic and lay audiences, Barr speaks at international and national venues–such as the University of Notre Dame, Duke Divinity, Sarum College in Salisbury, England, the University of Calgary, Parks Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, the Evangelical Free Society of Canada, Newbigin House in San Francisco, California, and Brite Divinity School in Ft Worth, Texas.
Barr received her B.A. in History (with a minor in Classics) from Baylor University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has 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, Sixteenth Century Society, and American Historical Association. In addition to The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth, Barr is the author of The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England and co-editor of The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation and Faith and History: A Devotional. Since receiving tenure in the History department in 2014, Dr. Barr has served as Graduate Program Director in History (2016-2019), received a Centennial Professor Award (2018), and served as an Associate Dean in the Baylor Graduate School (2019-2022).
In addition to all this, Beth is also a Baptist pastor’s wife and mom of two great kids.
Andrew Bartlett KC is the author of ‘Men and Women in Christ: Fresh Light from the Biblical Texts’ (IVP, 2019), which Dr Scot McKnight says is “rigorous, fair-minded, cautious, exegetical, analytical, logical, and dispassionately presented” and “will become THE textbook used in colleges and seminaries that want to discuss women in ministry afresh”. He has a BA in Theology (University of Gloucestershire; first class honors and Bible Society prize). He has served in several churches as elder or churchwarden. He studied law at Oxford and practiced as an English barrister for more than 40 years. His main work is as an international arbitrator.
He has recently been writing responses to Mike Winger’s Women-in-Ministry videos. Click here.
All sessions are approximately 45 minutes long followed by a 20 minute Q&A.
TIME | SESSION |
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8:30 – 9:00am | MDT | Registration |
9:00 – 10:30am | MDT | Intro and Session 1 – How God Sees Men and Women – Andrew Barlett |
10:30 – 11:00am | MDT | Break |
11:00am – 12:30pm | MDT | Session 2 – The Cost of Patriarchy for Christian Women – Beth Allison Barr |
12:30 – 2:00pm | MDT | Lunch (Onsite) |
2:00 – 3:30pm | MDT | Session 3 – How God Sees Leadership – Andrew Bartlett |
3:30 – 3:45pm | MDT | Break |
3:45 – 5:00pm | MDT | Annual General Meeting |
TIME | SESSION |
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9:00 – 10:30am | MDT | Intro and Session 4 – The Cost of the Reformation for Women – Beth Allison Barr |
10:30 – 11:00am | MDT | Break |
11:00 – 12:30pm | MDT | Session 5 – What is Paul Not Permitting in 1 Timothy 2 – Andrew Bartlett |
12:30 – 2:00pm | MDT | Lunch (Onsite) |
2:00 – 3:30pm | MDT | Session 6 – The Cost of Writing Women Out of Church History – Beth Allison Barr |
3:30 – 4:00pm | MDT | Break |
4:00 – 5:00pm | MDT | General Q&A Session |
To get started, check the pricing below. Once done, click on the Register Now button to proceed. *Early Bird Pricing ends May 4, 2023.
Category | Price |
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Early Bird Pricing* (In-person) | $175/person |
Regular Pricing (In-person) | $199/person |
Online Price | $125/person |
Group of 4+ Online Price | Contact Home Office: registration@efcc.ca |
Registration closes 1 June, 2023.
Lunch for in-person attendees included. Please make selection for dietary restrictions through the registration form.
Lakeview Hotels in Okotoks has a limited number of rooms set aside for EFCC TheoCon 2023 attendees. Reservations need to be made by May 2, 2023.
Have a question about registration, group rates, or anything else regarding Theology Conference 2023? Please use the contact form below.
We’ve never made shirts we’ve designed available for purchase before, though we have been asked a few times. We feel the visual message of this event presents a perfect opportunity. These are from a name-brand shirt-maker, and we’re confident that this is a quality product.
$20 each.
All pre-ordered t-shirts will be available for pick-up at the Theology Conference 2023 in Okotoks, AB.
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