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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 SandersFamilyMarriageFormationJournalSpring 2025
To have at the end of your life one single story, a promise that was kept, would gesture to all the things you did not choose.
Kirsten SandersBook Reviews
Beth Allison Barr's 'Becoming the Pastor's Wife' fails largely due to the significant problems with both her historical and theological methods.
Kirsten SandersChurchFormation
The dominant metaphors we use to describe the Christian life should be creaturely and organic, not mechanistic.
Kirsten SandersFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation
I taught my sons to fly a kite the other day. It was a beautiful Sunday morning and the wind was just right for it. They are old enough to know how a kite should fly but not old enough […]
Kirsten SandersFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation
In his recent essay, Tim Keller has entered his bit in a persistent dialogue regarding how Christians should speak in public. The players in this dialogue, including James Wood, Aaron Renn, and Simon Kennedy, are working to sort out how […]
Kirsten SandersFeatured
Jon Askonas’ Compact piece does not bury the lede. Conservatism has failed, in his view, and it has failed because it mistook the problem at hand. It mistook the seismic shift of technology for a simple lack. Askonas writes that […]
Kirsten SandersFeaturedFormationJournalJournal 1
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. — Psalm 90:1–20 I have often […]
Kirsten SandersFeaturedEvangelicalism
Author’s Note I wrote and submitted this essay in advance of the January 6th events at the Capitol. Since then there has been a deluge of think-pieces and journalistic treatments of the events and the role “evangelicals” had in them. […]
Kirsten SandersFeaturedEducation
Come now, O Lord my God. Teach my heart where and how to seek you, where and how to find you. Lord, if you are not here, where shall I seek you, since you are absent? But if you are […]
