Rosaria Butterfield will speak at Geneva College on Thursday, April 21 2016 as part of the Geneva Visiting Artist and Lecture Series. She will present “Sexual Identity and Union with Christ” at 7 p.m. in Skye Lounge of the Student Center.
Butterfield was once a tenured professor of English who identified as a lesbian and worked to advance the cause of LGBT equality. After her conversion to Christ in 1999, she came to see the sinfulness of having any identity apart from Him.
Butterfield is married to Kent Butterfield, pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham, and is a home-school mother, pastor's wife, author and speaker. She is helping Christians to better understand their LGBT neighbors and loved ones so that we can lovingly look past labels of sexual identity and share the gospel effectively.
In 2012 she published her conversion memoir, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor’s Journey to Christian Faith. Her second book, Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ became available in July of 2015.
Butterfield writes and speaks about sexuality, identity, Christian community and seeks to encourage all in faithful Christian living and service.
“Sexual Identity and Union with Christ” is free and open to the public.
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