Jennifer Butler is an ordained Presbyterian minister with her Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. She is the founding Executive Director of Faith in Public Life and former chair of the White House Council of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Butler is a staunch advocate for women’s rights and human rights and is passionate about the need to counter religious extremism. She is the author of Who Stole My Bible: Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny (Faith in Public Life 2020).

Interview Date: 11/30/2020 Tags: Jennifer Butler, justice, Jesus, freedom, oppression, nuclear weapons, racism, feminist hermeneutics, Bible, Mary Magdalene, Mariam in Hebrew scripture, book of Exodus, Moses, Valarie Kaur, Sikh, darkness of the womb, dignity, Ayn Rand, Metamorphosis of a caterpillar, imaginal cells, giving birth, John Lewis, Black Lives Matter, voting rights, activism, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Rebecca Solnit, hope, cloud of witnesses, Václav Havel, lamentation, lamenting, power of the lament, Royal Reality, Religion, Social Change/Politics