Rev. Dr. Cheryl J. Sanders

Senior Pastor, Third Street Church of God - Washington, DC

Rev. Dr. Cheryl J. Sanders is Senior Pastor of the Third Street Church of God in Washington, D.C. since 1997, and Professor of Christian Ethics at the Howard University School of Divinity since 1984. She is the author of over 50 articles and several books. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Divinity School (M.Div., cum laude and Th.D. in the field of Applied Theology). In 2002 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky.

Speaking Topics”
• Race and culture
• The holiness-Pentecostal experience in African-American religion and culture
• Tradition of community work among black churches

Recent Interviews and Publications

• Black Churches and Gay Marriage: Panel
• The Role of Religion in Electoral Politics
• Ministry at the Margins (InterVarsity Press, 1997)
• Saints in Exile: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture (Oxford, 1996)
• Empowerment Ethics for a Liberated People (Fortress, 1995)
• Editor of Living the Intersection (Fortress, 1995).