Lisa Harper
Author and Founder and President, Freedom Road
“Narrative shapes worldview. As a result, narrative shapes the world. The narrative gap is the gap between the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and how we got here. Our nation's narrative gap has entrenched warring visions of our common future. It impacts our understanding of our history, our theology, our economics, our everything. There is no way to peace without first bridging our narrative gap.”
Biography
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 communal action toward a more just world. Harper 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. Her book, The Very Good Gospel, was named 2016 “Book of the Year” by Englewood Review of Books, and the Huffington Post identified her as one of 50 Women Religious Leaders to Celebrate on International Women’s Day.