“If we find ourselves at a shore from which love has not built a bridge, perhaps here is where we teach one another to swim.”
— AMY BUTLER
Beautiful and Terrible Things
About BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE THINGS
From one of America’s most prominent ministers comes an inspiring, provocative reflection on the necessity of community, the inevitability of conflict, and the transformative power of radical love.
About PASTOR AMY BUTLER
Pastor Amy believes deeply that courageous communities of people who live with tenacious love can change the world. Much of her career has been spent helping build communities of radical witness within the institutional church, breaking stained glass ceilings and serving in high profile pulpits. Now founder of the innovative philanthropic fund, Invested Faith, Pastor Amy believes that, even in the face of declining church attendance and a pervasive theology of scarcity, the work of God continues, very often in ways and places we don’t find familiar.
Most Sundays you’ll find Pastor Amy in the pulpit at Community Church of Honolulu, where she has served as interim pastor in 2023 and is serving as Designated Pastor for 2024 and 2025. You will also find her working to build Invested Faith; reaching out to social entrepreneurs who are building businesses that are changing systems of injustice, talking with churches about creating a legacy that will live on well beyond their institutional life, and offering a word of hope through her book, "Beautiful and Terrible Things." Amy writes “It was Jesus who told parable after parable about sowing seeds, trying to teach his disciples that the abundance of God is available to us all, that we can build a world where everyone thrives if we have the courage to live with open hearts and open hands, meeting God anywhere God’s work of justice and healing is happening.”
