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Kirsten Sanders (PhD, Emory University) is a writer and theologian. She lives with her family in Massachusetts.
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Kirsten Sanders (PhD, Emory University) is a writer and theologian. She lives with her family in Massachusetts.
Kirsten SandersBook ReviewsThe Magpie
Peter Harrison's 'Some New World' is everything you might hope for in the best of academic history.
Kirsten SandersCultureChurchBook ReviewsJournalWinter 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 SandersBook ReviewsThe 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 SandersBook ReviewsThe 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 SandersBook ReviewsThe Magpie
Kirsten Sanders reviews two recent books by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson in the latest edition of her books column, 'The Magpie.'
Kirsten SandersBook ReviewsJournalFall 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 SandersBook Reviews
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 SandersBook Reviews
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 SandersBook Reviews
By transforming 'awareness of the vulnerable' into valuable symbolic capital, wokeness served the rich while offering nothing to the actually vulnerable.
Kirsten SandersBook Reviews
If the world is haunted and the evil supernatural is real, then taking a somewhat indifferentist posture to which God or gods one follows is an odd choice.
Kirsten SandersFamilyTheology
Preliminary notes on what a Protestant 'theology of the body' ought to be.
Kirsten SandersFamilyFeaturedAnthropology
I am a mother and a theologian. These two facts belong together, inextricable as they are for me and my experience of them. I was pregnant with my first child as I began my doctoral work; I carried her to […]
