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Kirsten Sanders (PhD, Emory University) is a writer and theologian. She lives with her family in Massachusetts.
BooksEvangelicalismJournalFall 2026Kirsten Sanders
'Live Laugh Love' takes an abundance of cleverly written stories and creates from them a decoupage.
Kirsten SandersBooksCultureTechnologyJournalSummer 2026
Park thinks that apocalypse can tuck us deeper into the world, like the dead who are buried in the natural cemeteries she describes. But she cannot hold onto the belief that accompanied this vision for burying the dead.
Kirsten SandersThe MagpieBooks
Readers seem less interested in the subject matter than in having their own prior opinions endorsed. But what good nonfiction needs is the integrity of an author who knows what she thinks and takes ownership of it.
Kirsten SandersBooks
Though she has stumbled exactly onto the Christian question, unfortunately, Harden hasn’t given enough credit to the Christian answer.
Kirsten SandersBooksThe Magpie
Peter Harrison's 'Some New World' is everything you might hope for in the best of academic history.
Kirsten SandersCultureChurchBooksJournalWinter 2026
If you experience many longings and intuitions that are traditionally answered by religion, why not be religious? Paul Elie's book attempts an answer.
Kirsten SandersBooksThe Magpie
Nguyen's 'The Score' helps expose the ways in which an attachment to metrics reenforces bureaucracy and undercuts much of what makes life pleasurable.
Kirsten SandersBooksThe Magpie
Sometimes what we need is not a top-down technique to fix an unjust system; we need to jerry-rig a solution within the parameters of our own context.
Kirsten SandersBooksThe Magpie
Kirsten Sanders reviews two recent books by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson in the latest edition of her books column, 'The Magpie.'
Kirsten SandersBooksJournalFall 2025
If the purpose of religion is to make people moral, then the moral failures of religious people disprove religion and render it obsolete.
Kirsten SandersBooks
Shopping for a homecoming dress for my daughter made me long for the restrictions of purity culture, which at least left me with my own boundaries intact.
Kirsten SandersBooks
By transforming 'awareness of the vulnerable' into valuable symbolic capital, wokeness served the rich while offering nothing to the actually vulnerable.
