Progressive Spirit

Lisa Sharon Harper is the Chief Church Engagement Officer with Sojourners.Lisa has been leading trainings and helping mobilize clergy and community leaders around shared values for the common good, with a focus on racial justice. Prior to joining Sojourners, Lisa was the founding executive director of New York Faith & Justice — an organization at the hub of a new ecumenical movement to end poverty in New York City.She has written five books including Left, Right and Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics and Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican.. or Democrat.Her latest book is called The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right.