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Tanja Butler is a painter and printmaker whose studio is located in Beverly, MA. She received her B.A. in art history and studio art and her M.A. in painting from the University at Albany, NY. Her work has been displayed in many solo and group exhibitions across the United States....

Diana Butler Bass, Ph.D., is an award-winning author, popular speaker, inspiring preacher, and one of America's most trusted commentators on religion and contemporary spirituality. She holds a doctorate in religious studies from Duke University and is the author of eleven books. Her bylines include The New York Times, the Washington...

Dr. Rosaria Butterfield is a former tenured professor of English and women's studies at Syracuse University, where she taught from 1992 to 2002 after earning her PhD from The Ohio State University. Her academic work centered on critical and queer theory, with a historical focus on 19th-century literature. During her...

Susan Butterworth, M.A., M.Div, is a writer, teacher, singer, and lay minister. She leads Song & Stillness: Taizé @ MIT, a weekly ecumenical service of contemplative Taizé prayer at the interfaith chapel at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She teaches writing and literature to college undergraduates and writes book reviews,...

Rev. Dr. George Arthur Buttrick (1892-1980) was an English-born, American-based Christian preacher, author and lecturer. Buttrick served as a pastor in Quincy, IL; Rutland, VT; Buffalo, NY; in 1927, he succeeded Henry Sloane Coffin as minister of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. He was a graduate of Victoria University of Manchester, England. From 1955 to 1960 he was Plummer...

Rev. David G. Buttrick (1927–2017) was an American Presbyterian minister who later joined the United Church of Christ. He also served as the Drucilla Moore Buffington Professor of homiletics and liturgics at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Buttrick was a prolific scholar, writing or editing more than a dozen books and numerous book chapters. He also published more than 175 articles and...

Rev. Dr. Thomas Lane Butts (1930-2021) was minister emeritus of First United Methodist Church in Monroeville, AL, and served United Methodist Churches in Florida and Alabama. Dr. Butts has been the featured preacher for the United Methodist series of the Protestant Radio Hour (currently known as Day 1) nearly 40...

Jared Byas served as a local pastor and adjunct professor for almost ten years before launching The Bible for Normal People with Dr. Peter Enns, an organization committed to bringing the best in biblical scholarship to everyday people. In addition, Jared is an author and editor of several books and...

Jason Byassee is the senior minister of Timothy Eaton Memorial Church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was previously a full professor and the inaugural holder of the Butler Chair in Homiletics and Biblical Hermeneutics at the Vancouver School of Theology in British Columbia. His primary vocation is to reinvigorate today's...