![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lindsey Carlson recently spoke with Rosaria about opening hearts and front doors to our neighbors. In addition to remaining zealous about hospitality, she loves outdoor hikes with her family, her dogs, and a great cup of coffee. Rosaria spends her days as a pastor’s wife, home school mom, and author and speaker. One of God’s greatest blessings to her is her husband, Kent Butterfield, pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham in North Carolina. She started writing as a child trying to make sense of the anger, unpredictability, and drug and alcohol abuse in her family.Īfter her conversion to Christ at the age of 35, she left her former life behind and lost everything but her dog. Rosaria was raised in a Chicago suburb in a liberal religious home. In Rosaria’s book, The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post Christian World, she articulates a gospel-minded hospitality that’s focused not on teacups and doilies, but on missional evangelism. From hating Christians to becoming one, the transformation took place slowly and outside a church pew when the church came to her.īefore she became a popular Christian author, she was a tenured professor at Syracuse University, a lesbian feminist fighting to advance the cause of LGBTQ equality, and an unlikely convert. In 1999, Rosaria Butterfield’s life intersected with the gospel of Jesus Christ through a friend’s radically ordinary hospitality. ![]()
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