Thea Butler
speaker
39 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Thea Butler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 3 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 2.
Appearances
In Griswold v. Connecticut.
As a teenager, Heidi really believed in the Constitution.
But after a decade of writing and performing this play, something flipped.
Heidi could no longer ignore all the imperfections.
This is true.
Mysteries of every size, each week.
This American Life, wherever you get your podcasts.
By the mid-1980s, the number of Americans watching religious television had skyrocketed to nearly 25 million.
Prosperity gospel was everywhere.
On TV, of course, but also in magazines, on billboards, and in self-help books.
The short version is that it's the idea that free markets are the solution to all of our problems.
The focus, like with prosperity gospel, is on personal advancement.
More is more.
Kate Bowler, a practicing Christian herself and a historian, spent a decade going to services, getting to know parishioners and their prosperity gospel preachers, investigating the relationship between the two.
And why do the parishioners, seeing how well off the preachers are, keep giving them money?
For 47 years, Iranians have lived under a dictatorship many no longer want.
Now the country may have reached a breaking point.
We ask three central questions about how Iran got here and what comes next.
Listen to ThruLine on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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