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Lisa Sharon Harper

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“Everything wrong really can be made right.”

~Lisa Sharon Harper

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Storyteller, passionate, fire, deep love for the scripture and the church. Lisa Sharon Harper shines light on the implications of the Gospel on our lives, our families and our world.

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Join me at my Kitchen Table with Special Guest @Ka

Join me at my Kitchen Table with Special Guest @Kaitlin Curtice tomorrow morning, 11am ET on Sub📚! We’ll be talking about Kaitlin’s beautiful new book, Everything Is A Story!

#kitchentableconversations

From the destruction of The White House to the dis

From the destruction of The White House to the disappearance of neighbors and community members to the loss of Medical care, Education funding and business, Americans are absorbing profound levels of loss.

Let’s talk about it. And let’s glean a few strategies for coping and resilience in an era of daily gashes to our weary souls.

“Kitchen Table Conversations with Lisa Sharon Harper,” THIS Friday on Sub📚, 4pm ET / 1pm PT.

Rev. @pastahj described the terror they’re dealing

Rev. @pastahj described the terror they’re dealing with in Chicago during our Kitchen Table Conversation. Now, every time I hear pundits call it a “crackdown” I cringe. Language matters. This is not a “crackdown.” It is terrorism against Americans by America.

#nonviolentresistance #resist #donotconsent

Read more at Sub📚 link 🔗 in bio and stories.

What a day?!?! #nokingsphilly

What a day?!?! #nokingsphilly

Show up for your family. Show up for your neighbo

Show up for your family.

Show up for your neighbors.

Show up for your ancestors.

Show up for yourself.

Show up for the future.

Show up!

Find a march near you at nokings.org.

#nokings #changeiscoming #freedom #freedomiscoming

This cracks me up now! 🤣🤣🤣 It’s true! Josh McDowel

This cracks me up now! 🤣🤣🤣 It’s true! Josh McDowell gave a talk at several Christmas Conferences in a row about Chlamydia! “Who wants that?!”

Watch my full Kitchen Table Conversation with @jenhatmaker at 🔗 in my bio and stories!

#purity #joshmcdowell #purityculture

This connection crystallized for me in the middle

This connection crystallized for me in the middle of this conversation.

Like many former evangelicals feel betrayed by their community’s support for White Christian Nationalism, many Americans are feeling betrayed by ways our leaders have betrayed democracy.

Think:
*Current GOP betrayal of democracy to protect pedophiles named in Epstein files, military on streets, and open plotting to steal elections.
*Biden and many Dem’s betrayal of democracy by resourcing Gen0*side in Gaza.

Stay tuned for some writing on this as I dig deeper.

Watch full Kitchen Table Conversation with @jenhatmaker about her fabulous new memoir, Awake, at links in bio and stories!

#kitchentableconversations #betrayal #democracy #evangelicals

I absolutely love how @jenhatmaker responded to my

I absolutely love how @jenhatmaker responded to my question here.

Watch her response and full Kitchen Table Conversation at link in bio and in stories!

#kitchentableconversations #jenhatmaker #awake #purityculture

Fabulous Kitchen Table Conversation with my friend

Fabulous Kitchen Table Conversation with my friend, @jenhatmaker, today. Omg. I finished reading her new book, Awake, and jumped into this convo full of her words.

Here I’m reading from the turning point in her story. Literally occurs at the exact halfway point in the book and it’s the one section that’s explicitly about race.

Think about that. An entire life of ministry. But the minute Jen spoke out against white supremacy, she lost half her base of white evangelical women.

Watch the rest at the link in my bio and my stories.

#awake #kitchentableconversations

Meet us in the Sub*Stacks (at)lisasharonharper and

Meet us in the Sub*Stacks (at)lisasharonharper and (at)jenhatmaker!

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This is how Chicago pastor, Jonathan @pastahj Broo

This is how Chicago pastor, Jonathan @pastahj Brooks @lawndalecommunitychurch, responded when I asked him: “How has your experience of the ICE invasion in Chicago changed how you pastor your church?”

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“This is not law enforcement.” - Testimony from ev

“This is not law enforcement.” - Testimony from evangelical Chicago pastor Jonathan @pastahj Brooks of @lawndalecommunitychurch.

Watch the full Kitchen Table Conversation on Sub📚 at link in bio and stories.

This hit me like a brick. Imagine walking down the

This hit me like a brick. Imagine walking down the street and thinking any car that passes by can be the one that stops and snatches you from your life—forever. ANY car. ANY person. @Jonathan Brooks is right. This is terrorism.

Watch my whole conversation with @pastahj of @lawndalecommunitychurch on Chicago’s West Side at the Sub📚 link in my bio or stories.

#kitchentableconversations Lessons on Pastoring Through F@.scist Terrain.

Mark your calendars! My friend, @Jen Hatmaker , wi

Mark your calendars! My friend, @Jen Hatmaker , will join me at the Kitchen Table on MONDAY at 3pm ET / 12pm PT for a convo about her new book, Awake, and the new life that came once she learned to walk through our world (and her life) with eyes wide open. Do👏🏽not👏🏽miss👏🏽this.

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#awake #book #kitchentableconversations

“I joined the faith leaders’ formation, and we wal

“I joined the faith leaders’ formation, and we walked. Locked arm in arm, each step was an actual prayer. We approached the park and fanned out to flank one full block. Militia men stood opposite us, carrying AR-15s to block us from entering the park.

We faced off with the opposition for two hours, singing every Freedom Song we could remember. ‘This Little Light of Mine’ was our favorite. This dainty Sunday school song expanded in the space between us, matching firepower with moral power. In the middle of the singing I looked in the eyes of my counterpart. His eyes hard, his stance at the ready, I called to him. He ignored me. Filled with the truth of the presence of God in the present moment, I called to him: ‘I love you.’

He looked at me, stunned.

‘I know,’ he said.

I rejoined our collective declaration: This little light of mine. I’m gonna let it shine! …

… During the rise of the Third Reich, there was a window when nonviolence had a chance to win in Germany. There came a time when Jewish and international non-violence only protected and prolonged the Reich’s capacity for violence. In those nascent years, in the face of fascist takeover, the only people group with the ability to mount effective non-violent resistance was the Germans themselves. Only they possessed the social and political power to stand up en masse and say “No.” En masse, they could have laid down their arms. En masse, they could have challenged the direction of their nation. They could have marched and gotten in the way. But not enough did. Too many obeyed fear, not faith. Thus, the only way to stop the slaughter became war.

In the Trump era, White Americans, especially White Christians, possess the same social and political power to present their bodies as living sacrifices. They are best positioned to engage nonviolent resistance in the struggle to stop the march of fascism in the U.S. and around the world. …”

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This Friday, 4pm ET, join me at my Kitchen Table i

This Friday, 4pm ET, join me at my Kitchen Table in conversation with the pastor of Chicago’s Lawndale Christian Community Church, @pastahj !

PastahJ is the pastor of Chicago’s fabulous Mayor Brandon Johnson. His parishioners have been targeted and have shown up in sacred resistance against dehumanization.

Join us (at)lisasharonharper on Sub📚 as we mine the lessons he is learning about how to shepherd through fascist terrain.

#kitchentableconversations #chicago

POV. Chicago. #freedom Remixed with @rampuri.a A

POV. Chicago.

#freedom

Remixed with @rampuri.a Animal Channel: An eagle attacked a lion cub and regretted it.

In case you missed it. In my latest Kitchen Tabl

In case you missed it.

In my latest Kitchen Table Conversation we talked Christian Public ethics in the age of shutdowns and raids. It was a powerful conversation.

Correction: The Venezuelan population of Chicago has increased significantly in Chicago since 2022. That said, to claim all Venezuelans are gang members is crazy. Especially, since most who came here were fleeing the violence of gangs.

To watch the full convo, click the link in my bio or stories (IG). FB folks head over to (at)lisasharonharper on Sub📚.

Yes. The value of the #shutdown IS greater than th

Yes. The value of the #shutdown IS greater than the cost. Why? Because without it up to 24 million people will lose their healthcare, hospitals in under resourced areas across the U.S. will close, and America’s health system will implode.

It is worth it. Stand firm and win.

Watch the rest of this week’s conversation at link in my bio or stories (IG). FB folks watch (at)lisasharonharper on Sub📚.

#kitchentableconversations

In this clip, @sharonsaysso shares what gives her

In this clip, @sharonsaysso shares what gives her hope right now—the possibility of the impossible in circumstances that seem insurmountable.

I cosign ✍🏽

Watch the full video at link in my bio and stories (IG). FB folks click in (at)lisasharonharper on Sub📚.

#kitchentableconversations #hope

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