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Family background, education, conversion, Publications
'''Rosaria Champagne Butterfield''' is a former tenured professor of English and women’s studies at [[Syracuse University]] who in her late twenties, allured by [[feminist]] [[philosophy]] and [[Gay activism|LGBTI advocacy]], adopted a [[lesbian]] identity, but later in her late 30s, while researching the alleged 'Religious Right' ''“and their politics of hatred against people like me,”'' converted to [[Christ]] and consequently left her lesbian partner and lesbian lifestyle. Now she is author, speaker, and a homeschool mother, married to Kent, a Reformed [[Presbyterian]] pastor in [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Rosaria’s Story |publisher=Crown & Covenant Publications |url=http://rosariabutterfield.com/biography/ |accessdate=7 Aug 2016}}</ref>
'''Rosaria Champagne Butterfield''' is a former [[leftist]] tenured professor of [[English]] and women’s studies at [[Syracuse University]] who in her late twenties, allured by [[feminist]] [[philosophy]] and [[Gay activism|LGBTI advocacy]], adopted a [[lesbian]] identity, but later in her late 30s, while researching the alleged '[[Religious Right]]' ''“and their politics of hatred against people like me,”'' [[Metanoia|converted]] to [[Christ]] and consequently left her lesbian partner and lesbian lifestyle. Now she is a confessional [[Christian]], author, speaker, and a homeschool mother, married to Kent, a Reformed [[Presbyterian]] [[pastor]] in [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Rosaria’s Story |publisher=Crown & Covenant Publications |url=http://rosariabutterfield.com/biography/ |accessdate=7 Aug 2016}}</ref> Butterfield discourages usage of the term ''“gay Christian,”'' and she disputes ''“[[conversion therapy]],”'' in part because in her view the 'heterosexual sin' is no more sanctified than 'homosexual sin'.
==Family background, education and research==
Butterfield was raised and educated in [[liberal]] [[Catholic]] settings and she earned her Ph.D. from [[Ohio State University]]. After graduation, she served in the English department and women studies program at [[Syracuse University]] from 1992 to 2002. Her primary academic field was '[[critical theory]]', also known as [[postmodernism]], and she was specializing in so called 'queer theory', a [[postmodern]] form of 'gay and lesbian studies'. Her historical focus was 19th century literature, informed by [[Freud]], [[Marx]], and [[Darwin]]. She advised the [[LGBT]]I student group, wrote Syracuse University’s policy for same-sex couples, and actively lobbied for LGBTI goals alongside her lesbian partner. Their two houses they owned and lived in, one in the country and one in the university district, became hubs of intellectual and activist work. Butterfield was a coordinator of a welcoming committee in the gay and lesbian [[advocacy group]], she was regularly invited to lecture on gay and lesbian studies at major universities including Harvard University and she also was giving a key address at local [[Gay pride]] march.
In 1997, Butterfield wrote an article against the [[Promise Keepers]], an international Christian organization for men. A response to that article triggered a meeting with Ken Smith, who became a resource on the 'Religious Right' and 'their Bible', a confidant, and a friend.
==Conversion==
In April 1999, at the age of 36 and just few weeks shy of 37, when she was an associate professor recently tenured and also holding a joint teaching appointment at the Centre of women studies, Butterfield converted to [[Christianity]] after repeatedly reading the [[Bible]] in large chunks for her research. Her conversion lead to the cataclysmic fallout — in which she lost ''“everything but the dog,”'' yet she believes thus she have gained [[eternal life]] in [[Christ]].
==Publications==
*''The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor’s Journey into Christian Faith'' — In her first book Rosaria Butterfield describes, as a reflective English professor with a tenured position at a large university, events that led her from a cohabiting relationship with lesbian partner and animal activist to what she now describes as a “train wreck”, an encounter with something that turned her world upside down and changed her view on [[Christianity]] that she previously had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging [[religion]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Rosaria’s Books: Openness Unhindered |publisher=Crown & Covenant Publications |url=http://rosariabutterfield.com/rosarias-books-the-secret-thoughts-of-an-unlikely-convert/ |accessdate=7 Aug 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith Audio CD |url=https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Thoughts-Unlikely-Convert-Professors/dp/1610458206 |accessdate=7 Aug 2016}}</ref>
*''Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ'' — In this book, a followup to ''The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert'', Dr. Butterfield not only goes to great lengths to clarify some of today’s key controversies such as those pertaining to terms like [[same-sex marriage]], [[sexual orientation]], [[gender identity]], and [[gay]] Christian, but she also traces their history and defines the terms that have become second nature today—even going back to God’s original design for [[marriage]] and sexuality as found in the [[Bible]]. She cuts to the heart of the problems and points the way to the solution, which includes a challenge to the church to be all that [[God]] intended it to be, and for each person to find the true [[freedom]] that is found in [[Christ]]. The book addresses questions of [[sin]], identity, and [[repentance]] that Butterfield often encounters during speaking engagements.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rosaria’s Books: Openness Unhindered |publisher=Crown & Covenant Publications |url=http://rosariabutterfield.com/rosarias-books-openness-unhindered/ |accessdate=7 Aug 2016}}</ref>
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