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Anthea Butler

Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book is White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (UNC Press, 2021).

Anthea ButlerMarch 22, 2012

Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism

By Anthea Butler

Is a black person’s life worth anything in America? Not as long as America remains “Exceptional.”

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Anthea ButlerFebruary 21, 2012

Graham Whistles “Dixie” on Morning Joe

By Anthea Butler

Franklin Graham, panderer to the most powerful (and most conservative) members of the GOP, revives Obama as Muslim lie. 

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Anthea ButlerFebruary 14, 2012

What Get Religion Doesn’t Get About “Monk” Class

By Anthea Butler

AP’s Kathy Matheson 1, conservative blogger Terry Mattingly 0. 

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Anthea ButlerFebruary 8, 2012

Paula White’s Coronation, “Rabbi” Messer’s “Apology,” and Great Parody

By Anthea Butler

The charlatans and the satirists.

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Anthea ButlerFebruary 7, 2012

Watch the New Birth Throne: Eddie Long Declared ‘King’ by ‘Rabbi’

By Anthea Butler

The disgraced preacher takes the “kingdom” to the next level of church pimping.

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Anthea ButlerFebruary 1, 2012

Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua Dies: Potential Witness in Philly Sex Abuse Trial

By Anthea Butler

Philadelphia DA loses an important witness.

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Anthea ButlerDecember 4, 2011

Eddie Long Takes Break from New Birth Pulpit

By Anthea Butler

Accused of sexual abuse, and with wife seeking divorce, scandal-ridden pastor steps aside.

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Anthea ButlerOctober 17, 2011

Bishop Finn-dicted For Protecting Pedophile Priest

By Anthea Butler

A Kansas City Bishop and his Diocese were indicted for failure to report an egregious case of child abuse. Still?

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Anthea ButlerOctober 7, 2011

Civil Rights’ Roughneck Preacher, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth (1922-2011)

By Anthea Butler

As a historian I actually like the no-nonsense preacher more than MLK.

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Anthea ButlerSeptember 26, 2011

Obama’s Preaching Doesn’t Reach

By Anthea Butler

Peddling in racial stereotypes.

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