Andrew Mark Henry

Andrew Mark Henry (born 1988 or 1989) is an American scholar of religion who hosts the YouTube channel Religion for Breakfast, which provides videos explaining religion from an academic perspective. Henry started the channel in 2014 while studying for a PhD in religious studies at Boston University, which he completed in 2020. The channel covers a diverse array of topics relating to religion, with the intent of providing nonsectarian educational content to the general public. Henry has also worked at The Atlantic as a manager of a forum and its YouTube channel.

Education Prior to 2012, Andrew Mark Henry was a graduate of history from Messiah College (now Messiah University) and attended a postbaccalaureate program in classical languages of University of Pennsylvania. In 2012, he began studying for a PhD in religious studies at Boston University (BU), specializing in early Christianity. While at BU, he was a teaching assistant for Stephen Prothero, a professor of religion and popular author, and studied abroad in Jerusalem as a research fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research. He said in 2021 that the name of the channel was inspired by a band name generator. Beginning in 2016 he began uploading videos in earnest, David Callaway of the Freedom Forum said the channel may serve as an example to public schools in the United States on how to cover religious topics "in an academic and constitutional way." Henry himself has said that he often receives backlash in YouTube comments accusing him of performing either religious apologetics or criticism of religion. He was born in 1988 or 1989.

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