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Dr. Cheryl J. Sanders is Senior Pastor of the Third Street Church of God in Washington, D.C. 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, including 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); and is the editor of Living the Intersection (Fortress, 1995).  She is a graduate of the Sidwell Friends School, Swarthmore College (B.A. in Mathematics) and Harvard Divinity School (M.Div., cum laude and Th.D. in the field of Applied Theology).  In 2002 she was awarded the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky.