Christine Schenk, CSJ has worked as a nurse midwife to low-income families, a community organizer, an award-winning writer-researcher, and the founding director of an international church reform organization, FutureChurch.  Her first book Crispina and Her Sisters: Women and Authority in Early Christianity (Fortress Press, 2017) received a first place in history from the Catholic Press Association and her most recent work, To Speak the Truth in Love: A Biography of Sr. Theresa Kane RSM (Orbis Books 2019) received first place awards from The Association of Catholic Publishers and the Catholic Press Association.

Her forthcoming book Bending Toward Justice: Sister Kate Kuenstler and the Struggle for Parish Rights tells the story of the rampant closings of vibrant Catholic parishes across the United States and documents the courageous advocacy of Sr. Kate and hundreds—indeed thousands—of ordinary Catholics whose persistence charted a new course in canon law.  It will be published by  Rowman Littlefield on December 17, 2024.

Schenk also writes a regular column for the National Catholic Reporter and is one of three nuns featured in the award-winning documentary Radical Grace. Schenk graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University and holds two masters’ degrees, one in science from Boston College and an MA in Theology "with distinction" from St. Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology in Cleveland.