Family
Sider is the child of a Canadian Brethren in Christ pastor. He attends Oxford Circle Mennonite Church, is the father of three and lives in the Germantown section of Philadelphia with his wife Arbutus, a family counselor. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2011, and they have five granddaughters. Sider's son Theodore (Ted) is a tenured professor of philosophy at Cornell University who has published over 40 scholarly articles and three books with Oxford University Press.
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