Stories by Anthea Butler
Anthea Butler is a historian of American and African American Religion, specializing in African American Religious History, Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Gender, and Religion and Popular culture. Her most recent book is Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World (UNC Press, 2007).
Posted on Jul 25, 2009, Source: Religion Dispatches
When God is treated like "on-demand cable," the most fervent believers will have trouble adhering to basic rules of propriety, let alone values.