Mickelsen, Alvera (Personal Name)

Karo, N. Adventure in dying, c1976.

Women, authority & the Bible, c1986: CIP t.p. (Alvera Mickelsen) data sheet (b. 4-3-19) pub. info (assoc. prof. of journalism, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn.)

Mickelsen, A.B. Understanding scripture, c1992: CIP t.p. (Alvera M. Mickelsen)

Star tribune WWW site, viewed July 21, 2016 (in obituary dated July 20, 2016: Alvera Mickelsen devoted her life to the conversion of her fellow Christians, not to faith but to feminism; former journalism prof. at Bethel University; died on July 12; she was 97; born in 1919; started life on a farm near La Porte, Ind.; got her master's degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and worked as an editor in Chicago for various Christian magazines before landing a teaching position at her alma mater, Wheaton College; married A. Berkeley Mickelsen; kept teaching while pursuing her second master's degree in education from Wheaton; moved to Arden Hills in 1965; in 1968, she started teaching journalism at Bethel University, where she worked until 1986; together, the Mickelsens wrote books and articles, pointing to passages within the Bible that supported equality [of the sexes]; they would tour Minnesota debating pastors and leading theologians and later helped found Christians for Biblical Equality (CBE), an advocacy group; after her husband died in 1990, Mickelsen continued to travel and argue for women's equality within her evangelical sphere)