Hi, I’m Kaitlyn Schiess.
I’m a writer, an author, and a doctoral student at Duke Divinity School studying political theology, ethics, and biblical interpretation. I graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary in 2021 with a ThM in systematic theology.
I am the author of The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here (released with Brazos Press in August 2023) and The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor (released with InterVarsity Press in September 2020).
I have written about theology, politics, and culture at places like Christianity Today, The New York Times, Christ and Pop Culture, CT Women, RELEVANT, Sojourners, Fathom, and the Christian Research Journal. I’ve also contributed some thoughts to this New York Times piece and this HuffPost piece. I wrote a chapter about political theology, Augustine, and conspiracy theories for an Eerdmans book, QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross, that released in May 2023.