Anthea Butler

3 days ago | msnbc.com | Anthea Butler

Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America and the first from the Jesuit order to lead the Catholic Church, died on Monday morning at 88. Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced the Pope’s death in a statement released by the Vatican: “At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father.” His successor will be chosen soon during a papal conclave.

3 days ago | flipboard.com | Anthea Butler

12 hours agoThe first Latin American pope, known for speaking out against social injustice, leaves behind a complicated legacy. Pope Francis, the 266th leader of the Roman Catholic Church who ushered in a progressive era for the Vatican, died Monday. He was 88. Francis’ death follows a five-week hospitalization …

4 days ago | msnbc.com | Anthea Butler

“This is really — I hope — going to be one of the greatest Easters ever,” President Donald Trump told faith leaders he invited to the White House last week, “because we have something going that I don’t think this country has seen in 100 years.

1 week ago | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Anthea Butler

KeywordsSister Saints, Colleen Mcdannell, Mormon women, polygamy, representationAbstractWhen I received my copy of Sister Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy, I stared at the cover for a while. Surely Colleen McDannell did not pick this image, I thought, because the cover is reminiscent of what I would consider to be a nineteenth-century version of Mormon womanhood: a young mother playing with her children, looking down upon them lovingly, seemingly free from care.

1 week ago | whitetoolong.net | Anthea Butler |Robert P. Jones

As wrote last week, I was shocked to learn that my book, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, along with six other prominent books in religious studies, were among the 381 books that were banned and removed from the shelves at the US Naval Academy. “This is the first college-level library banning we have seen,” noted Jennifer Finney Boylan, president of PEN America and also author of a book that was banned.