Lisa Sharon Harper

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  Dec 21, 2019

  Dear Santa, ...

  Imagine if this was the letter your child had to write to Santa this season.

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  Apr 5, 2018

  The Lorraine Motel

  As I walk toward the balcony where my hero fell, I feel strangely drawn in enwrapped by invisible hands of comfort and welcome.

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  Mar 3, 2018

  Where Is the Rule of Law When Immigrants Are Suffering and DACA Is Shut Down?

  Trump still has time to do the right thing and not follow Australia over a moral cliff.

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  Aug 2, 2016

  The Day I Was Transformed on Immigration Issues

  Seven years ago, on a cold day in December 2009, I entered Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, N.J. — a minimum-security prison on a pilgrimage organized by the Interfaith Center of New York and Human Rights First.

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  Jun 23, 2016

  Trump Appeal Based on Fearing Loss of Propped-Up White Prosperity

  What if the grand spiritual lie of race had never been told — the lie that some people groups were created to rule while others were created to be ruled? And what if that lie had never been believed and adopted into law?

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  May 22, 2016

  When the Good News Doesn't Feel Good Enough: My Search for a 'Very Good Gospel'

  More than ten years ago, I took a pilgrimage that changed my life.

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  Apr 22, 2016

  Flint's Water Crisis and the Biblical Call to Exercise Dominion

  What are the top five things we should expect of public servants like mayors, governors, and presidents? The first five that come to this city girl's mind are:

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  Mar 22, 2016

  Morgan Freeman and the Seeker's Journey

  Morgan Freeman used to strut across my TV screen, beaded leather vest swaying, dancing and singing as he put words together to make a sentence as the character "Easy Reader" on the iconic children's television show, The Electric Company.

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  Feb 23, 2016

  From Forgiveness to Repentance to Restitution

  One question haunted me: How does a white Christian South African live in this apartheid from day to day? 1) One must actively fight injustice, or 2) she must embrace a theology that has nothing to do with it.

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  Dec 22, 2015

  Let's Shine a Light This Christmas for Our Muslim Neighbors

  Not since the World War II have United States politicians exercised such an extreme level of xenophobia, nationalism, and unapologetic bend toward fascism.