Diana Butler Bass

Trump’s “Unholy” Week: Theology and Politics Take Center Stage

April 3, 2023

Christian Nationalism, General, Global, Interfaith, Politics

Editor's Note: This piece first appeared on Diana Butler Bass' blog, The Cottage on March 30, 2023 and is used here with permission. Donald Trump was indicted this afternoon. We don’t know the charges...

The Holy Thursday Revolution

Diana Butler Bass

April 14, 2022

Theology

This table is the hinge of history. The table is the point. Thursday is the Last Supper and the First Feast. The Holy Thursday Revolution.

The Kin-dom of God

Diana Butler Bass

December 15, 2021

Books, Global, Theology

When I first encountered a prayer using “kin-dom” instead of “kingdom,” I remember thinking that it was a sort of liberal watering down of the robust vision of Christ the King in glory, diminishing the power of his lordship.

Via Dolorosa, Minneapolis: The Suffering Crowd

Diana Butler Bass

April 2, 2021

General, Race, Theology

With each tearful testimony, I think of what happened on that street in Minneapolis, as regular people watched heartless authorities while a man died unjustly. And I remember what happened on a street in Jerusalem two millennia ago.

A Year of No Thanks

Diana Butler Bass

November 27, 2020

General, Global, Theology

We shouldn’t be grateful for COVID, for the political chaos, for the broken climate, for economic suffering. But we can be grateful through these times, while we are struggling in them.