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The Magpie No. 1: Inventing Purity Culture

November 5th, 2025 | 8 min read

By Kirsten Sanders

I have been granted the great privilege by my editor of “writing whatever you want but please be yourself.” Paired with the request that “if you are going to request all of these books to review perhaps we should make a column out of it,” and that “I think you are the only mean holding all of these odd books together”; perhaps the column might be as eclectic, as odd, even as curious as I myself can be. So today I present to you my new books column: The Magpie.

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Kirsten Sanders

Kirsten Sanders (PhD, Emory University) is a writer and theologian. She lives with her family in Massachusetts.