Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Diana Butler Bass, author of "A People's History of Christianity," about Christianity and social justice work.
Diana Butler Bass is an author, speaker, and independent scholar specializing in American religion and culture. Her six books including the best-selling Christianity for the Rest of Us, The Practicing Congregation: Imagining a New Old Church and her most recent, A People’s History of Christianity, a history of Christian spirituality and social justice, scheduled for March 2009 release from Harper One. From 2002 to 2006, she was the Project Director of a national Lilly Endowment funded study of mainline Protestant vitality—a project featured in Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. She serves on the board of directors of the Beatitudes Society, and participates as an advisor for Emergent Village and Synagogue 3000. She is part of Sojourner’s Red Letter Christians and is a regular contributor to the God’s Politics blog on Beliefnet.