Sarah Sentilles is a scholar, author, and teacher. An award-winning speaker, she focuses on people working to create a more just and life-giving world—and the obstacles they face when trying to do so.
In her most recent book, A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit (Harcourt, 2008), Sarah turns her attention to ordained women and reveals what it’s like to lead as a woman of faith. She is also the author of Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton (Beacon, 2005). Her dissertation, “Just Looking: Theological Language, Ethics, and Photographs of Violence,” examines the effects of interpreting the photographs from Abu Ghraib as crucifixion images.
She is available to work with communities of all kinds—divinity schools, seminaries, churches, temples, mosques, book groups—about women’s leadership, Christianity and torture, and challenges facing religious communities in the twenty-first century.
Are you in a book group? Click here for a discussion guide for A Church of Her Own
Are you part of a church community interested in framing torture as a moral issue? Click here to read Sarah’s writing about torture and to connect with the National Religious Campaign against Torture