“People have to be made to understand that they cannot look for salvation anywhere but to themselves.” ― Ella Baker
Dr. Anthea Butler is the recipient of The 2022 Martin E. Marty Award!!
Each year, the American Academy of Religion presents the Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion to an individual whose work has helped advance the public understanding of religion. Read more here.
Lectures, Panels, and Appearances
US charging of four officers involved in George Floyd’s killing ‘a first step but not enough’
As the four US officers involved in George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis are charged with second-degree murder, Anthea Butler, professor at University of Pennsylvania, says …
Rosemarie Aquilina was the judge most sexual assault victims wish they had in court
In a legal system that often puts the abused on trial, rather than abusers, the judge in the Nassar case blazed a new trail. “I …
Billy Graham and the Gospel of American Nationalistic Christianity.
Billy Graham’s death on the same day as the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X is an interesting postscript to the life of America’s premier evangelist …
Honoring the memory of Lamin Sanneh, Yale Divinity School expert on world Christianity
Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School, died unexpectedly from a stroke on Sunday (Jan. 6). He was …
Democrats will lose in 2018 if they don’t shut up about civility and shout about our democracy dying
Playing respectability politics is not going to get us back the House, the Senate or the White House; going high when they go low ended with the low-goers winning.
The Prosperity Gospel of Trump, Osteen and the GOP
Before it began to rain in Houston last week, the spectacularly wealthy pastor Joel Osteen could have opened up his megachurch to serve as a …