Anthea Butler

For black Catholics, the papal visit is a time of anticipation but also a time of reflection on their difficult - but…

— Anthea Butler

There are many photos of Catholic priests and nuns marching in the Civil Rights movement, most notably at the March on Selma,…

— Anthea Butler

Rightwing organizations like Turning Point USA or Leadership Institute spend considerable amounts of money and time to train students with conservative values…

— Anthea Butler

Issues like immigration, police brutality, and other onerous laws put in place by local and state governments are prime avenues for active…

— Anthea Butler

The usual Republican suspects lined up to side with Trump, chastizing Pope Francis for insinuating that the candidate isn't Christian.

— Anthea Butler

'Amoris Latetia' reiterates that Pope Francis is interested in changing both the tone and reception of people and families in the church…

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The pope's instruction for priests to forgive may mean, in some cases, the difference between a woman staying in the Catholic Church…

— Anthea Butler

Not every conservative Christian is a dominionist, but to say a movement doesn't exist, as some pundits and journalists have, without even…

— Anthea Butler

Mr. Trump's and Mr. Osteen's brands are rooted in success, not Scripture. Believers in prosperity like winners. Hurricanes and catastrophic floods do…

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Trump's defense of white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism is gathering those who support him into a strong solidified base. Since the election of Francis,…

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McCain courted in 2008 what I would call 'fringe' evangelicals, in part because evangelicals were skeptical of his commitment to values voters.…

— Anthea Butler

Charles Finney, the great 19th-century revivalist and evangelical, would have had a hard time preaching a revival in America today. Finney's brand…

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Graham functioned as a megaphone for conservative biblical ideas that dovetailed with conservative politics, including family, sexual morality, and adherence to laws.…

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Evangelicalism's moral values are now articulated by reality stars like the Duggar family, who Mike Huckabee embraced, and 'Duck Dynasty,' whose patriarch,…

— Anthea Butler

Forgiveness is enshrined in the Lord's prayer - forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. These scriptures point to the…

— Anthea Butler

What's sometimes called the 'browning' of the American Catholic church is very much on the minds of many U.S. bishops - and…

— Anthea Butler

Graham's legacy is not as a maverick or a trailblazer. It is the legacy of a man who used Jesus as a…

— Anthea Butler

Whether Trump knew it or not, his strong language tapped into evangelical beliefs about the 'last days' and America's role in biblical…

— Anthea Butler

Trump has benefitted indirectly from a strong belief of evangelicals that the two terms of Barack Obama has led the country to…

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The Chicago Declaration on Women in the Catholic Church, drafted in July of 2015 by Catholics for Choice, stated that it imagined…

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Forgiveness is a spiritual practice and biblical mandate from the New Testament that many American Christians engage in as a part of…

— Anthea Butler

While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition…

— Anthea Butler

Graham may have wanted integration, but instead, he promoted gradualism and provided absolution for racists hiding behind a Christianity attuned not only…

— Anthea Butler

As a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white…

— Anthea Butler

C. Peter Wagner was the Donald McGavran professor of church growth at Fuller. He was considered to be the heir of McGavran,…

— Anthea Butler

Our founding documents didn't just protect the right to bear arms: they were designed to protect all the principles upon which America…

— Anthea Butler

In a world where families are drowning on beaches to escape war, leaving the church because of sexual abuse, or denied access…

— Anthea Butler

Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter…

— Anthea Butler

The American Catholic Church made statements on racism as far back as the 1940s and '50s. 'Colored' Catholic girls could not live…

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The survivors of Hurricane Harvey do not need empty tweets and platitudes from people like Donald Trump and Joel Osteen. They have…

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Voting for Trump will either hasten the return of Jesus, according to evangelical belief, or to allow evangelicals to regain political power…

— Anthea Butler

Trump, despite his divorces and 'worldly lifestyle', appeals to evangelicals because he is wealthy, powerful, and pays them lip service. They support…

— Anthea Butler

Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen are mirrors of each other. Both enjoy enormous support among evangelicals, yet they lack a command of…

— Anthea Butler

When the good Christians of America are some of its biggest racists, one has to consider our moral responsibility to call out…

— Anthea Butler

Natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey are the worst kind of crises for people like Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen, who purvey their…

— Anthea Butler

American Presbyterians, as a whole, have already lost a large percentage of their population since 2008, in part because of the creation…

— Anthea Butler

Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women…

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Gun rights advocates - many whom also believe that the US constitution is divinely inspired and that the rights it enumerates are…

— Anthea Butler

The shooter's choice of Emanuel AME was most likely deliberate, given the church's storied history. It was the first African Methodist Episcopal…

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As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history…

— Anthea Butler