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Anthea Butler

Queen Elizabeth as a religious leader

John Fea   |  September 14, 2022

Penn’s Anthea Butler reflects on Elizabeth’s legacy. Here is a taste of her piece at MSNBC: “As a religious leader, Queen Elizabeth II was consistent but willing to adapt.” In his first remarks after the death of his mother, Queen […]

Is evangelical Christianity a religious movement, or is it something else?

John Fea   |  July 17, 2021

I first read historian Paul E. Johnson’s 1978 book A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 in 1989 while I was studying church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Johnson argued that evangelical religion in Rochester, […]

People of hope

John Fea   |  May 25, 2021

White Christians must learn about hope from the African-American experience. Today, on the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, University of Pennsylvania historian Anthea Butler reflects on hope. Here is a taste of her piece at Faith & […]