Amy Butler, the first female pastor to lead the Riverside Church in New York City, is leaving the historic progressive church. After five years at Riverside, Amy Butler will not renew her contract as ...

Congregants at a prominent Harlem church made history by selecting their first female leader, and they can’t wait for her to start. The Rev. Amy Butler was elected to lead Riverside Church, becoming ...

(RNS) — 'We’re going to take the season of Lent ... and see if we can’t reclaim some of the language for sin,' the Rev. Amy Butler said. (RNS) — During this year’s season of Lent — a time when ...

As developers gobbled up churches in downtown Washington in 2013, the Rev. Amy Butler had a realization. Institutional Christianity, she believed, was unlikely to revive itself after decades of ...

NEW YORK (RNS) Riverside's pulpit has been home to some of the most influential clergy in progressive Protestantism, including Harry Emerson Fosdick, William Sloane Coffin Jr. and James Forbes Jr. NEW ...

Disgraced Riverside Church Rev. Dr. Amy Butler has taken her sex toys to Washington, DC, according to her social media. The elusive ousted cleric known to her flock as Pastor Amy has resurfaced at ...

She’s taking a vow of silence. The Rev. Dr. Amy Butler, ousted pastor of Riverside Church, was tight-lipped Friday morning when asked about the sex-toy shopping spree scandal that torpedoed her cushy ...

Here’s how it all went down. A few months ago, as part of a sermon series on the teachings of Jesus from Matthew’s gospel, I preached a sermon called The Hardest Commandment. It was about the ...

Amy J. Mundis Butler, 36 of Mountville, died Monday, April 12, 2010 at Lancaster General Hospital. She was the wife of Steven Butler, whom she married on December 31, 2009. Amy was born in York on ...