Jason Lantzer serves as the Assistant Director of the Butler University Honors Program.  An historian by training, his research and writing interests generally center on religion, politics, and law, with some work about Disney thrown in for good measure. He is the author of seven books, including Mainline Christianity: The Past and Future of America’s Majority Faith (NYU 2012) and Great is Thy Faithfulness: A Bicentennial History of Meridian Street United Methodist Church (co-authored with Andrea Neal, IHS 2020), numerous book chapters and articles. A three-time graduate of Indiana University (BA, MA, PhD), he was part of the original Religion and Urban Culture (1.0) project and is pleased to be working these topics again.