Sermons are Anna Lisa’s ideal writing medium, offering

• Inherent conversation between the holy stories of scripture and the holy stories of our lives
  
  
• Constant invitation to pursue metaphor, which empowers human learning and empathy
  
  
• Relevancy for specific people in a specific place at a specific time, fomenting sincerity and accountability
  
  

“When I write a sermon I have the faces and stories of the congregation in my mind and heart. I realize they’ll be loosely held captive by me for nearly 15 minutes and I don’t want to waste their time by failing to speak to the aches and passions of their lives.”

Listen to Anna Lisa preach on youtube or vimeo or Stone Church's website.

Anna Lisa's writing includes essay and articles:

• Eating Together, Messenger, April 2020
  
• It's all Interim, Messenger, January/February 2020
  
• Honoring God, Guide for Biblical Studies, winter 2019
• We wish you a feminist Advent, Femailings, November 2019
• River of Fire book review, Femailings, November 2019
• The Vulnerable Pastor book review, Femailings, November 2019
• Global Women's Project Advent Calendar, 2019
• Reflecting on Chaos, Femailings, June 2019
• Vehicle for God's Grace, Inglenook Desserts, 2018
• Eternal Life, Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, December 2017
• Return to Babel: Language of the End of Life, Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, December 2017
• Cycling to Simplicity, Brethren Life & Thought blog, April 2017
• The Stories we Tell, Messenger, April 2017
• Brutal Resurrection, PlainViews, October 2015; reprinted in Messenger, June 2016
• Return to Babel, Bearings, December 2015
• Chapel Walk, Messenger, July/August 2015
• Good Friday, Bearings, April 2015
• Chapel Walk, On Our Minds, December 2014
• Transgender Day of Remembrance, Twin Cities Daily Planet, November 2014
• God’s works might be revealed, Living Word Bulletin Series, March 2014
• Donation after Cardiac Death, The Examined Life Journal, Issue 3.1 (fall 2013)
• Hope and Fear, Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, September 2013
• Keeping My Head, Bethany Seminary Admissions Newsletter, March 2013
• The Simplicity of Love Feast, Basin & Towel Journal, December 2011
• Let’s Move…Together, Brethren.org, June 2011
• Body Theology in the Love Feast, Brethren Life & Thought, vol. 55 #3&4 (summer/fall 2010)