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Rosaria Butterfield

Rosaria Butterfield (PhD) is a pastor’s wife, homeschool mom, and former Syracuse University professor of English and Women’s Studies. She has authored many books, including Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age (Crossway, 2023).
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Win Them with Dinner: Practicing Hospitality in Post-Christian Places

Win Them with Dinner

Practicing Hospitality in Post-Christian Places

Sep 14, 2024
In an increasingly post-Christian society, how can we love our neighbors well without compromising truth? In part, by practicing regular hospitality.
Rosaria Butterfield
Sep 14, 2024
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A Time for Courageous Love

A Time for Courageous Love

Sep 4, 2023
If “history” is on the wrong side of Christ in this generation — over sexuality, over abortion, over so-called gender — then Christians should learn to live on the wrong side of history.
Rosaria Butterfield
Sep 4, 2023
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Bless Those Who Hate You

Bless Those Who Hate You

Nov 6, 2021
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.
Rosaria Butterfield
Nov 6, 2021
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Host as You Are: Practicing Hospitality as a Family

Host as You Are

Practicing Hospitality as a Family

Jul 19, 2021
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?
Rosaria Butterfield
Jul 19, 2021
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Get More from the Bible This Year: Six Marks of Mature Reading

Get More from the Bible This Year

Six Marks of Mature Reading

Jan 1, 2021
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.
Rosaria Butterfield
Jan 1, 2021
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Can the Pandemic Be an Answered Prayer?

Can the Pandemic Be an Answered Prayer?

May 23, 2020
Can a global pandemic be an answer to prayer? Yes, if we are praying for more than physical health and safety.
Rosaria Butterfield
May 23, 2020
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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

Feb 27, 2020
What would Romans 1 look like in a nation today? And what does it mean for Christians living in a post-Obergefell world?
Rosaria Butterfield
Feb 27, 2020
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Gay Rights, Hate Speech, and Hospitality: Longings of a Former Lesbian

Gay Rights, Hate Speech, and Hospitality

Longings of a Former Lesbian

Sep 18, 2018
How did Christian beliefs about homosexuality become hate speech? Rosaria Butterfield traces the cultural shift and commends a way forward.
Rosaria Butterfield
Sep 18, 2018
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The Best Weapon Is an Open Door

The Best Weapon Is an Open Door

May 5, 2018
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.
Rosaria Butterfield
May 5, 2018
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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

Nov 11, 2017
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.
Rosaria Butterfield
Nov 11, 2017
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The Dead End of Sexual Sin

The Dead End of Sexual Sin

Apr 6, 2015
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.
Rosaria Butterfield
Apr 6, 2015
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DOMA and the Rock

Jul 11, 2013
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…
Rosaria Butterfield
Jul 11, 2013
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Hospitality on Mission: An Interview with Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Authors on the Line

Feb 20, 2013
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…
Rosaria Butterfield + 1
Feb 20, 2013
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Interview

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

Authors on the Line

Feb 19, 2013
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…
Rosaria Butterfield + 1
Feb 19, 2013

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