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The Rev. Jennifer Butler (https://revjenbutler) is the founding CEO of Faith in Public Life and Faith in Public Life Action. She is the author of Who Stole My Bible: Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny and Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized. She chaired President Obamas Faith Based Council from 2014 to 2015. Before leading FPL, Jennifer spent ten years working in the field of international human rights representing the Presbyterian Church (USA) at the United Nations and is an ordained minister.

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Addressing the moral pandemic at Easter

Most of us are closing our church doors to the virus. Will... read more

Revisiting the Cross During a Pandemic Holy Week

This week I’m going back to Mary Oliver’s poetry collection called Thirst.... read more

Tell President Trump: No Easter Massacre

We’re all frightened of the COVID-19 pandemic for very good reason right... read more

You can’t beat evil with a stump speech

After more than a year of campaigning, Democratic primary voters are finally... read more

#WomenLead at Faith in Public Life

Defiant women change history. From the women putting their bodies on the... read more

Muslim Ban 3.0: A Racist Attack on Religious...

As the 2020 election season begins, President Trump’s evangelical endorsers are touting... read more

A Braver America on National Religious Freedom Day

In America, land of the free, no freedom is more fundamental to... read more

On reparations by my alma mater

As a student at Princeton Theological Seminary in the 90s, my dorm... read more

Jeffress & Graham: Talk of Violence Breeds Violence

The Book of Proverbs is replete with warnings about the dangerous power... read more

Congress: What kind of nation do you wish...

Yesterday, I spoke at a rally in front of the Capitol, as... read more

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