Diana Butler Bass

Diana Butler Bass, Ph.D., is an award-winning author, popular speaker, inspiring preacher, and one of America’s most trusted commentators on religion and contemporary spirituality. You can sign up for The Cottage, her newsletter “for those who feel dissatisfied, discomforted, or uncertain about religion,” here. Visit her website, dianabutlerbass.com, for more information.

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Religion Dispatches

A Great Evangelical Divorce? — Speaker Mike Johnson's Breakup with Marjorie Taylor Greene Could Be Bad News For Trump

When Speaker of the House Mike Johnson pushed through aid to Ukraine this week, it did more than green-light funds to support the Ukrainians. In recent weeks, he changed from hard-core opposition to…

Diana Butler Bass

April 23, 2024

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Religion Dispatches

The SBC Sexual Abuse Scandal is a 'Success' Story of the Theological Vision and Social Structure of the 'Conservative Resurgence'

I don’t recall the specific date in late summer 1985—but I remember exactly where I was standing. In the sunshine, near the windows in the library of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. I was pulling…

Diana Butler Bass

June 3, 2022

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Religion Dispatches

'Straight, White, Christian, Married, Suburban Mom' Calls Out GOP Bully; But are Majority of White Suburban Moms Ready to See Through the 'Nice' Charade?

On April 19, Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow publicly called her colleague, Senator Lana Theis, to account. Theis had written an inflammatory fundraising email saying that McMorrow was…

Diana Butler Bass

April 21, 2022

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