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Rosaria Butterfield

Rosaria Butterfield is former tenured professor of English at Syracuse University. She is a homeschooling mother and writer and pastor’s wife, and is grateful to God that her church has been able to worship on the Lord’s Day at the church building once again.

Bless Those Who Hate You

Bless Those Who Hate You

It is normal to curse those who curse you. It is otherworldly to bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

Host as You Are: Practicing Hospitality as a Family

Host as You Are

Practicing Hospitality as a Family

Does hospitality feel impossible with small children? What if God means for someone to find Jesus in the chaos of a family clinging to Jesus?

Get More from the Bible This Year: Six Marks of Mature Reading

Get More from the Bible This Year

Six Marks of Mature Reading

God’s word restores the soul, comforts the afflicted, emboldens the weak, and corrects the sinner, but only as we really read and hear it.

Can the Pandemic Be an Answered Prayer?

Can the Pandemic Be an Answered Prayer?

Can a global pandemic be an answer to prayer? Yes, if we are praying for more than physical health and safety.

Are We Living Out Romans 1? Blessing and Curse in a Post-Obergefell World

Are We Living Out Romans 1?

Blessing and Curse in a Post-Obergefell World

What would Romans 1 look like in a nation today? And what does it mean for Christians living in a post-Obergefell world?

Gay Rights, Hate Speech, and Hospitality: Longings of a Former Lesbian

Gay Rights, Hate Speech, and Hospitality

Longings of a Former Lesbian

How did Christian beliefs about homosexuality become hate speech? Rosaria Butterfield traces the cultural shift and commends a way forward.

The Best Weapon Is an Open Door

The Best Weapon Is an Open Door

The gospel comes with a house key for those who have left everything for Jesus. Your best weapon in the war for the lost is an open front door.

Don’t Leave Your Husband for Her: Letter to a Would-Be Adulteress

Don’t Leave Your Husband for Her

Letter to a Would-Be Adulteress

In tears, you tell me that you have “come out,” and that you’re not looking back. You haven’t had an affair. Yet. But there is this woman you met at the gym.

The Dead End of Sexual Sin

The Dead End of Sexual Sin

In the writings of John Owen, I saw that the promises of sexual sin were the antithesis of what I had once believed. Instead of liberty, my sexual sin was enslavement.

DOMA and the Rock

In 1996, when Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), I grieved with my people. I was an atheist then, and lived in a monogamous lesbian relationship, working as a tenure-track professor specializing in English literature and Queer…

Hospitality on Mission: An Interview with Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Authors on the Line

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield shared her unlikely conversion story with us on the previous Authors on the Line podcast. We might have expected a Pauline conversion experience — perhaps a flash of light from heaven or an audible voice — but…

From Radical Lesbian to Redeemed Christian: An Autobiographical Interview with Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Authors on the Line

In 1999, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield was a tenured English professor at Syracuse University, a skeptic of all things Christianity, and in a committed lesbian relationship. Her academic specialty was Queer Theory, a postmodern form of gay and lesbian studies. Today…

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