Lisa Sharon Harper is the founder and president of Freedom Road, a groundbreaking consulting group that crafts experiences that bring common understanding and common commitments that lead to common action toward a more just world. Lisa is a public theologian whose writing, speaking, activism and training has sparked and fed the fires of re-formation in the church from Ferguson and Charlottesville to South Africa, Brazil, Australia and Ireland. Lisa’s book, The Very Good Gospel was named 2016 “Book of the Year” and the Huffington Post identified Lisa as one of 50 Women Religious Leaders to Celebrate on International Women’s Day.
Contributions
- August 24, 2020: The National Town Hall on Evangelical Faith and Politics
- April 15, 2011: The Ryan Plan: A Declaration of War on the Poor
- June 29, 2016: When Your Good News Isn’t Good Enough
- July 20, 2017: #BlackClergyUprising: A ‘Call to Action’ Against the ACA Repeal & Trump Budget
- August 15, 2017: Will America Pick Up Its Cross?
- September 11, 2017: #TheDeclaration: Speaking the Truth with Love, Without Apology
- October 16, 2017: #RubyWooPilgrimage: Supporting Women in Leadership
- March 1, 2018: Displaced Souls: Manus Island Refugees & the Death of DACA
- July 21, 2018: Evangelical Women & Men Call for A Pause on Culture War
- November 19, 2018: #RubyWooPilgrimage18: White-Washed Walls and Halls
- February 24, 2020: The Power of Pilgrimage: A Freedom Road Conversation
- July 21, 2020: Policing Was Never Intended for Law Enforcement
- July 22, 2020: Taking Back the Dream: A Dozen Visions Unfold
- August 28, 2023: Remembering We Can Fly
- August 25, 2020: My Testimony, My Party
- August 26, 2020: Repentance and Redemption Inside the White Church
- August 27, 2020: We Go There: Abortion
- August 28, 2020: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
- August 29, 2020: Environmental Racism & COVID-19
- August 30, 2020: A Prayer for the King
- August 31, 2020: Faith and Politics: Which Guides the Other?
- May 26, 2021: Why We’re Glad Our Publisher Isn’t Backing The ‘God Bless The USA’ Bible
- February 7, 2022: An Excerpt From Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World – And How to Repair It All
- July 7, 2022: The Death of Roe and the Resurrection of White Men in America
- September 8, 2022: Now more than ever: Let’s get the Equal Rights Amendment finalized
- May 3, 2023: Why the US Senate Needs to Affirm Equal Rights for All Citizens

