Raised and educated in liberal Roman Catholic settings, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield earned her PhD from the Ohio State University and was a tenured professor of English and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University where she taught until 2002. In her late 20s she adopted a lesbian identity and her scholarship specialized in critical theory and queer theory. She studied and wrote about nineteenth-century literature and her work was informed by Freud, Marx, and Darwin. She served as the advisor for campus LGBT group and wrote the university’s policy for same-sex couples. Alongside her partner, she was an active advocate for LGBT aims. In 1999 she was converted to Christ. She described her conversion in her memoir, The Secret Thoughts of An Unlikely Convert. She is married to Kent, a Reformed Presbyterian minister in North Carolina. She is a mother, author, and speaker. Her most recent book is, The Gospel Comes With A House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post- Christian World. Her next book, Five Lies of Our Antichristian Age is expected to appear in August, 2023.
The conference, Five Lies of Our Antichristian Age is scheduled for Friday, July 29, 2022, 7:00 PM at the Escondido United Reformed Church located at 1864 N. Broadway, Escondido CA, 92026.
Audio of the conference will be available after the conference.
Schedule
6:00PM | Doors and book tables open |
6:45PM | Welcome and Prayer |
7:00 | Welcome |
7:05 | Talk 1: “Five Lies Of Our Antichristian Age”—Rosaria Butterfield |
7:50 | Break (20 minutes) |
8:10 | Q&A With Dr Butterfield Hosted by Dr R. Scott Clark |
The conference is free and is co-sponsored by
An offering will be received to support the work of AGR and the HRA.