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Lisa Sharon Harper

From Ferguson to New York, and from Germany to South Africa to Australia, Lisa Sharon Harper leads trainings that increase clergy and community leaders’ capacity to organize people of faith toward a just world. A prolific speaker, writer and activist, Ms. Harper is the founder and president of FreedomRoad.us, a consulting group dedicated to shrinking the narrative gap in our nation by designing forums and experiences that bring common understanding, common commitment and common action.

Ms. Harper is the author of several books, including Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican…or Democrat (The New Press, 2008); Left Right and Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics (Elevate, 2011); Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith (Zondervan, 2014); and the critically acclaimed, The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong can be Made Right (Waterbrook, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016). The Very Good Gospel, recognized as the “2016 Book of the Year” by Englewood Review of Books, explores God’s intent for the wholeness of all relationships in light of today’s headlines.

A columnist at Sojourners Magazine and an Auburn Theological Seminary Senior Fellow, Ms. Harper has appeared on TVOne, FoxNews Online, NPR, and Al Jazeera America. Her writing has been featured in CNN Belief Blog, The National Civic Review, Sojourners, The Huffington Post, Relevant Magazine, and Essence Magazine. She writes extensively on shalom and governance, immigration reform, health care reform, poverty, racial and gender justice, climate change, and transformational civic engagement.

Ms. Harper earned her Masters degree in Human Rights from Columbia University in New York City, and served as Sojourners Chief Church Engagement Officer. In this capacity, she fasted for 22 days as a core faster in 2013 with the immigration reform Fast for Families. She trained and catalyzed evangelicals in St. Louis and Baltimore to engage the 2014 push for justice in Ferguson and the 2015 healing process in Baltimore, and she educated faith leaders in South Africa to pull the levers of their new democracy toward racial equity and economic inclusion.

In 2015 The Huffington Post recognized her as one of “50 Powerful Women Religious Leaders to Celebrate on International Women’s Day.” Most recently, Relevant Magazine recognized The Very Good Gospel as one of “Six Books that Will Change the Way You See the World” and Ms. Harper as one of “Seven Leaders to Follow in 2017.”

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Yes! We need to talk. Over the last few months Bl Yes! We need to talk.

Over the last few months Black people, asylum seeking people, young people, queer people and trans people and women people—all of these people made in God’s image have endured and absorbed unending assaults against their ability to flourish in Florida. It has felt like a steady stream of punches coming from deranged bullies. It has been stunning—terrorizing—haunting. 

Then, today Social Studies text book publishers revealed that they are taking out all mentions of race from their textbooks—even from the story of Rosa Parks. 😵

This is not a culture war. This is a war against the image of God on earth. 

We MUST talk about Florida’s war on God—now. 

THIS FRIDAY, 7pm ET
@lisasharper #iglive

#kitchentableconversations #kitchentableconvo #culturewar #imageofgod
Don’t miss this #kitchentableconvo with Jamila H Don’t miss this #kitchentableconvo with Jamila Hodge @equaljusticeusa! 

We’re rethinking #communitysafety

TONIGHT at 7pm ET 👊🏽
Going live with @oguyo.consulting this Weds mornin Going live with @oguyo.consulting this Weds morning at 8:15am eastern! It’s going to be a chat you don’t wanna miss!!
Join me {Lisa} and ISP next Thursday! ISP will be Join me {Lisa} and ISP next Thursday!

ISP will be kicking off its 25th Anniversary celebration at this year’s event!  We’re welcoming a slate of special guests and storytellers including theologian Lisa Sharon Harper, memoirist Mary Karr, author Fr James Martin, SJ, ISP alumni, and more!  Join in for an inspiring evening as we experience the transformative power of sharing our sacred stories.

Register here: https://ispretreats.org/cog/

#storytelling #powerofstories #ignatianspirituality #ignatianspiritualityproject
Don’t miss this. #kitchentableconvo with @chri Don’t miss this. 

#kitchentableconvo with @christenacleveland 

on How BlackWomanGod Changes Everything

Tonight, 7pm ET 
IGLive @lisasharper 

#blackhistorymonth
Holy God, Please be with President Carter in his 1 Holy God, Please be with President Carter in his 11th hour. Be with him close. Be with his family. Be with his friends and colleagues. 

In this hour, while President Carter is still with us, we thank him for his service to our nation and to the ones Jesus called “the least of these” throughout the world. 

And Thank you, sir, for your Bible studies. The Word of God in your Baptist heart led you to protect the separation of church and state, to champion the dignity and empowerment of women, and to empower the impoverished. 

Your faithfulness to the peaceable kin-dom of God led you to show us glimpses of possible peace in the Middle East through the Camp David Accords. And to condemn the modern-day colonization of the Palestinian people. 

It has been a joy and an honor to work with your team @thecartercenter. They carry your work forward, sir. They carry it well. 

Thank you for your witness, dear brother. Thank you. 

Well done.

((Deep bow))

#jimmycarter

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In the context of… Florida governor #desantis ba In the context of…
Florida governor #desantis banning AP African American Studies from Florida’s public schools

College Board dropping several seminal Black authors from their curriculum 

Several criminal and civil court cases coming to a head against the former president of the US and his aids. Presenting proof of conspiracy to defraud Americans by stealing the 2020 election

And in the context of several recent studies and polls revealing white evangelicals are more loyal to their whiteness than to Jesus. 

In this context, Asbury University is experiencing what some have characterized “a revival.” 

So, what’s going on?

Let’s talk about how we can discern if it’s revival or … something else. 

#kitchentableconvo tonight 7pm ET @lisasharper
Just a moment in the sun. #sunset #sunsetphotogr Just a moment in the sun. 

#sunset #sunsetphotography #southphillysunset #southphilly #curls #goodhairday #silverstreak #zurista  #justonedress
San Francisco, I’m back! Woohoo!! Can’t wait t San Francisco, I’m back! Woohoo!! Can’t wait to see you at Calvary Presbyterian Church tomorrow (Saturday) at 3pm PT! 

I’m looking forward to reading | performing portions of Fortune for you! Plus join our conversation about how to repair what race broke in our world!

#fortunebook #blackhistorymonth #truthtelling #repair
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