Chapel - Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013
Reardon Auditorium at 11 a.m.

Special Guest Speaker: Reverend Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D.

Cheryl J. Sanders has been Senior Pastor of the Third Street Church of God in Washington, D.C. since 1997, and is Professor of Christian Ethics at the Howard University School of Divinity where she has taught since 1984. 

She has published more than 100 works including several books: Ministry at the Margins (1997); Saints in Exile:  The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture (1996); Empowerment Ethics for a Liberated People (1995); and Living the Intersection (1995). She has been a contributing guest editor for Leadership, a journal for pastors. 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).

She was ordained to the ministry in 1981 by the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana). In 2002 she was awarded the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. She received a second honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Anderson University in 2007.

She is married to Dr. Alan D. Carswell, and is the mother of two adult children, Allison and Garrett.