Kirsten Powers is an American political pundit, analyst, USA Today columnist and a Fox News contributor who usually takes a liberal position. She began her career as a Democratic Party staff assistant with the Clinton-Gore presidential transition team in 1992 and was then appointed to a position in the Clinton administration. In 2005 journalist Ben Smith wrote that Powers was “emerging as one of the Democratic Party’s national voices.”
Powers was raised as an Episcopalian but spent much of her early adult life as an atheist. In her mid-30s she became an evangelical Christian. The process of conversion began when she dated a religious Christian man, who introduced her to the Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and the teachings of its pastor, Tim Keller, and culminated in an experience in 2006 when, during a trip to Taiwan, she believes that she was visited by Jesus.
Kirsten knows that her religious commitment surprises many people. She herself has called her conversion “a bit of a mind bender” due to her political beliefs and former atheism. She to describe herself as an “orthodox Christian” rather than “evangelical” due to the cultural baggage around the word “evangelical.”
She has said that the biggest impact her new-found faith had on her political beliefs was that she came to “view everyone as God’s child and that means everyone deserves grace and respect.” Kirsten is pro-life and opposes elective late-term abortions.
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Adapted from Wikipedia.org, “Kirsten Powers.”