Prior worked the last two decades at very conservative schools.
She was long at Liberty University, then shifted to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She was an unexpected figure, a sort of paradox in America’s largest religion. Weirdly colorful. Intellectual. A bit eccentric.
She was the Evangelical Auntie Mame, given to strange declarations. “I believe God has called me to childlessness,” she writes in 2017.
It wasn’t the way Evangelicals talk. A woman should bear children and raise children as her primary responsibility in life. That’s Evangelicalism.