Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts

Scholar

Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, is Pastor of the nationally renowned Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York, and President of SUNY College at Old Westbury. Dr. Butts is a native New Yorker. He spent a few years in the South, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He returned to New York and earned a Master of Divinity Degree in Church History from Union Theological Seminary, and a Doctorate of Ministry Degree in Church and Public Policy from Drew University.

Reverend Butts was an Urban Affairs instructor, and served as Adjunct Professor in the African Studies Department at City College, New York. He also taught Black Church History at Fordham University, and continues to give lectures and speeches to colleges, universities and various organizations throughout the United States and abroad.

In addition to his professional and religious avocations, Dr. Butts is Chairman of the Board of North General Hospital in Harlem; Chairman of National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA), and a founding member of the organization’s Board of Commissioners; and a member of the Board of the New York Blood Center, the American Red Cross of Greater New York, New Visions for Public Schools, and American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee.

Rev. Butts previously served as President of Africare, an independent organization dedicated to the improvement of the quality of life in rural Africa, as well as President of the Council of Churches of the City of New York; and he was formerly Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of United Way of New York City, and Chairman of the Board of the Harlem Branch YMCA. Further, he has received honorary degrees from The City College of New York; Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama; Claflin College of Orangeburg, South Carolina; Dillard University, New Orleans, Louisiana; Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania; and Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

Calvin Butts is featured in the FAITHANDREASON® Studio Series Volume Four, “Should We Care About Each Other’s Morality?”, “Could Christianity Possibly Be Outdated In Today’s World?”, and “Does It Matter What I Say?”

http://www.abyssinian.org/index.php?l=101

Join our E-mail List

Scholars