Sharon E. Watkins

Sharon E. Watkins is the General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada. She was the first woman to lead a mainline denomination in the U.S., and has served on the Advisory Council of the White House's Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Watkins is the author of Whole: A Call to Unity in a Fragmented World, and holds a doctoral degree from Phillips Theological Seminary and Master of Divinity from the Yale Divinity School.

Sharon E. Watkins

Racism Is Poisoning Our Society

"Unfair racial stereotypes have taken root in the hearts of people"

How Advent Can Help Us Embrace the True Spirit of Christmas

It's a season when the sacred and the secular awkwardly collide and good will and generosity struggle with crass consumerism

Mourning Ferguson

We haven’t taken the time to delve into the longstanding tensions that set the stage for the protests