2016-2017 Parkhurst Lecture

Dr. Kendra Irons
Tuesday, October 25 | 4:00 p.m. | Wroten Hall

M. Madeline Southard: From the Plains to the Pulpit and Beyond

Dr. Kendra Weddle Irons is an associate professor of religion and humanities at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas. She holds a PhD in Religion from Baylor University and an MA in Theological Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary. She is the author of numerous monographs, including most recently, If Eve Only Knew: Freeing Yourself from Biblical Womanhood and Becoming All You are Meant to Be (Chalice Press, 2015). Her first book—Preaching on the Plains: Methodist Women Preachers in Kansas, 1920-1956 (University Press of American, 2007)—examines Methodist women who preached in Kansas prior to 1956 and includes two chapters dedicated to M. Madeline Southard, a Southwestern alumna.