This sermon was offered online on July 5, 2020 as part of the Poor People’s Campaign: National Call for Moral Revival and Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference #WhattotheSlave Initiative. Click here for the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Justice Jubilee Policy Platform. by Lisa Sharon Harper When I was a child, Frederick Douglass was an icon. He […] The post The 5th of July appeared first on Lisa Sharon Harper.| Lisa Sharon Harper
by Lisa Sharon Harper In 2007, on her death-bed, Carolyn Bryant confessed to Timothy Tyson, author of The Blood of Emmett Till: Emmett Till never did anything. This is the story that plays on repeat in this nation; not once in a generation, but rather once a week. Black men, women and children are wrongfully […] The post New Seed appeared first on Lisa Sharon Harper.| Lisa Sharon Harper
by Lisa Sharon Harper All over the U.S. this weekend, little girls held their father’s hands as they walked together through semi-crowded beach town streets and sat down for burgers and fries from local restaurants, glad to be open and receiving customers again. Together with mom and son, this classic American family ate their classic […] The post Nostalgia and Repentance in the COVID Era appeared first on Lisa Sharon Harper.| Lisa Sharon Harper
Holy God, hear our prayers. We enter Holy Saturday wading through the disequilibrium of unknowing, the grief of friends and family lost and the terror that we could be next. Righteous rage rises each day as primal screams greet televised propaganda telling us all is well when all is not well! We see the sick […] The post We Pray appeared first on Lisa Sharon Harper.| Lisa Sharon Harper
Donald Trump is using national fear of COVID-19 to spin and justify further erosion of our democratic norms. He is turning away asylum seekers on our southern border. His justification? Fear of a #COVID19 outbreak in detention centers. This is SPIN. Spin is the twisting of truth in such a way that it looks true on […] The post President Trump, COVID-19 is Not a Reason to Deny Asylum Seekers appeared first on Lisa Sharon Harper.| Lisa Sharon Harper
by Lisa Sharon Harper Will Republican Senators vote to see documents and hear witness testimonies in the U.S. Senate Impeachment Trial? If you haven’t been following things, that might seem like a crazy question. After all, it is a trial. The point of a trial is to prove or disprove the prosecution of a case […] The post Constitution vs. Party: What Will Republican Senators Choose in the Impeachment Trial? appeared first on Lisa Sharon Harper.| Lisa Sharon Harper
by Lisa Sharon Harper My 3-year-old body lay next to a family member—protected by proximity to power and authority. No monsters could reach me—even the ones under the bed must stay at bay—because an adult male who I trusted lay next to me. Questions did not exist in my universe; only the clarity of one […] The post Betrayed Bodies appeared first on Lisa Sharon Harper.| Lisa Sharon Harper
I realized recently that my relationship with the Bible is changing. That revelation scared me. In the formative years of my evangelical faith, I was taught to think of Jesus as my boyfriend. “Quiet times” were my dates with my boyfriend, Jesus. They were the most basic component of my evangelical Christian discipleship; incorporating journaling, […] The post Developing a New Relationship with the Bible appeared first on Lisa Sharon Harper.| Lisa Sharon Harper
⚡️ “On #Evangelicals #ChurchandState #ImpeachmentDay and #Healing https://t.co/S68fZ5v0Pb — Lisa Sharon Harper (@lisasharper) December 18, 2019 The post On Evangelicals, Church and State, Impeachment Day and the healing of our nation appeared first on Lisa Sharon Harper.| Lisa Sharon Harper
Welcome to my new blog! I’ve been longing for a blog space to simply share my thoughts on events of the day, theology, culture, politics and the arts. Considered this LSH acoustic—without the bells and whistles. These will be first passes at thoughts that you may see developed into columns or book chapters elsewhere. Sometimes […] The post Welcome to The LSH Blog! appeared first on Lisa Sharon Harper.| Lisa Sharon Harper