Diana Butler Bass

Director, Project on Congregations of Intentional Practice - Alexandria, VA

Diane Butler Bass holds a Ph.D. in American religious history from Duke University and is the author of four critically acclaimed books. She is the director of the Project on Congregations of Intentional Practice, a Lilly Endowment funded study of mainline Protestant vitality that has been featured on Beliefnet.com and in The Los Angeles Times. Butler Bass is adjunct faculty member in church and society at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, VA. She is also a columnist for the Religious News Service. Her works include Standing Against the Whirlwind: Evangelical Episcopalians in 19th Century America, Broken We Kneel: Reflections on Faith and Citizenship, The Practicing Congregation: Imagining a New Old Church, and Strength for the Journey: A Pilgrimage of Faith in Community, and in September 2006, Harpers SF will release her latest work, Christianity for the Rest of Us.

Speaking topics:
• Religion and politics
• church history
• congregational studies
• American religion

Recent Interviews
• U.S. News: Religion in America: Pumping life into mainline Protestantism
• Religion and Ethics Newsweekly: Interview with Diana Butler Bass
• Resources for American Christianity: On the Vitality of “re-traditioned� mainline Protestant Churches