A three-time Super Bowl champion, 2019 scoring leader, and recordholder for the longest field goal in Super Bowl history, Butker is one of the best kickers in the National Football League. He’s also a devout Catholic who is quite outspoken about his faith.
It’s one thing to be outspoken, and another to be at the same time outspoken, thoughtful, intelligent, and mature. It was my distinct pleasure to sit down with Butker in July to discuss “Magnanimity in a Polarized World” in front of a standing-room-only crowd of five hundred FIRST THINGS readers.
After the event, Butker had this to say about FIRST THINGS: