Cody J. Sanders
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Cody J. Sanders

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The Rev. Cody J. Sanders, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Congregational and Community Care Leadership at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, MN. Prior to joining the faculty of Luther, he was the pastor of Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Harvard Square (2015-2023), where he also served as the American Baptist Chaplain to Harvard University and Advisor for LGBTQ+ Affairs in the Office of Religious, Spiritual, & Ethical Life at MIT. Additionally, he is a faculty member at the Center for Chaplaincy Studies, affiliated faculty in Pastoral Theology and Chaplaincy Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary, a faculty advisor in the International Diploma Program in Social Construction and Professional Practice at the Taos Institute, and has taught on the adjunct faculty in pastoral care at a number of institutions of theological higher education. He is the author of Spiritual Care First Aid: An All-Hands Approach for Church and Community (Fortress, 2025), co-author of Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead (Fortress, 2023), author of Christianity, LGBTQ Suicide, and the Souls of Queer Folk (Lexington, 2020), A Brief Guide to Ministry with LGBTQIA Youth (Westminster John Knox, 2017), co-editor of Trouble the Water: A Christian Resource for the Work of Racial Justice (Nurturing Faith, 2017), co-author of Microaggressions in Ministry: Confronting the Hidden Violence of Everyday Church (Westminster John Knox, 2015), editor of the second edition of Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth: A Resource for Congregations on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (2013) published by the Alliance of Baptists, the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, and the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, and the author of Queer Lessons for Churches on the Straight and Narrow: What All Christians Can Learn from LGBTQ Lives (Faithlab, 2013), winner of the national Bronze Medal for Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Non-Fiction in the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards, which has also been translated into both Japanese and Swahili. Cody J. Sanders and Justin Sabia-Tanis are co-editors of the Lexington Books series titled, Queer and Trans Approaches to Religion and Theology.
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