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Faith in Public Life: Rev. Jen Butler

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August 2021

August 04, 2021

The Quest for Rest: Sabbath as Resistance

Last week, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles was (and continues to be) disparaged by many for...

July 2021

July 23, 2021

CRT: Telling the Truth about American History

I don’t know about you, but in all the time I spent in school in...

July 02, 2021

Congress Must Deliver a Holy Recovery

As I look at the struggles of this nation today, with so many families straining...

March 2021

March 26, 2021

Christian Nationalism and the Struggle for LGBTQ Equality: Who is my Neighbor?

A couple weeks ago, I joined a group of religious leaders at the Capitol to...

January 2021

January 15, 2021

Religious Freedom Amid an Attempted Coup

Religious Freedom Day falls at a dangerous moment this year. As the nation reels in...

September 2020

September 18, 2020

6 ways to protect your church from conspiracy theories

One month after the 2016 election, a gunman stormed into a pizza parlor three blocks...

July 2020

July 20, 2020

Women of faith ready to dump Trump

From day one of his political career, President Trump’s rhetoric and policies have harmed women....

June 2020

June 19, 2020

DACA: A Dream Endures

The struggle over legal protections for young immigrants is a proxy conflict about our nation’s...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

Black Lives Matter to God

Racist violence is swirling in the air this week, telling us to sit powerless in...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

Religious liberty isn’t a license to kill

Debates about church and state have never been for the faint of heart. Whether the...

April 09, 2020

Addressing the moral pandemic at Easter

Most of us are closing our church doors to the virus. Will we open our...

April 08, 2020

Revisiting the Cross During a Pandemic Holy Week

This week I’m going back to Mary Oliver’s poetry collection called Thirst. It is a...

March 2020

March 28, 2020

Tell President Trump: No Easter Massacre

We’re all frightened of the COVID-19 pandemic for very good reason right now. But, like...

February 2020

February 14, 2020

You can’t beat evil with a stump speech

After more than a year of campaigning, Democratic primary voters are finally winnowing the field...

January 2020

January 29, 2020

#WomenLead at Faith in Public Life

Defiant women change history. From the women putting their bodies on the line during the...

January 27, 2020

Muslim Ban 3.0: A Racist Attack on Religious Liberty

As the 2020 election season begins, President Trump’s evangelical endorsers are touting his record on...

January 15, 2020

A Braver America on National Religious Freedom Day

In America, land of the free, no freedom is more fundamental to our identity than freedom...

November 2019

November 14, 2019

On reparations by my alma mater

As a student at Princeton Theological Seminary in the 90s, my dorm room in Alexander...

October 2019

October 04, 2019

Jeffress & Graham: Talk of Violence Breeds Violence

The Book of Proverbs is replete with warnings about the dangerous power of speech: “Death...

September 2019

September 24, 2019

Congress: What kind of nation do you wish us to be?

Yesterday, I spoke at a rally in front of the Capitol, as we joined with...

September 11, 2019

The Prayer of St. Francis on 9/11

On September 11, 2001, as the Twin Towers burned and fell, an ancient prayer rattled...

September 03, 2019

Practicing Resurrection: Overdose deaths can be prevented.

Last week, I received training on how to reverse an opioid overdose. The trainer first...

August 2019

August 20, 2019

Our Ministry of Imagination: Sermon at St. John’s UCC

Recently, I was in Columbus and was blessed to preach at St. John's UCC. Below...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

A How-to Guide for Connecting with the Religious Left

As 2020 Presidential candidates road test their stump speeches, jockey to distinguish themselves in debates...

June 2019

June 20, 2019

We must defeat dehumanization

Throughout Scripture, from Exodus to the Babylonian exile to Jesus’s flight, forced migration and deportation...

May 2019

May 15, 2019

What President Trump has broken apart, Congress must put back together.

Remarks I gave at a Mother’s Day rally - calling for action from the Trump...

March 2019

March 14, 2019

No second class citizens in the kingdom of God

In many places in the United States, a same-sex couple can be legally married on...

March 06, 2019

All Families Belong Together

Today I went to a hearing held by the House Homeland Security Committee where Secretary...

February 2019

February 11, 2019

Trump’s Wall is Immoral: What Bible are you Reading Pastor Jeffress?

I have to wonder what Bible President Trump’s close evangelical advisors are reading. Pastor Jeffress...

January 2019

January 10, 2019

The Moral Vision Trump Should Have Delivered

Earlier this week, President Trump delivered an Oval Office address on immigration that sought to...

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