Anna Lisa's writing includes articles and books:

• in process: Finding Our Way, Brethren Press 2026 Advent Devotional
• in process: Simple Living, Covenant Bible Study
• Hyperlocal Eating, Anabaptist World, June 2025
• Journal Gazette's Golden Pen, May 2025
  
• Ark of Tastes, Anabaptist World, May 2025
• Ripples and Stone, Messenger Magazine, April 2025
• What do you want for your last meal?, Anabaptist World, April 2025
• Who’s in your communion wafer?, Anabaptist World, March 2025
• A Movie Menu for Lent: Women who host extravagantly, Anabaptist World, February 2025
• Two Brethren walk into a bar, Anabaptist World, January 2025
• Push Me, Pull You, Messenger Magazine, December 2024
• Consider the birds, including the turkey, Anabaptist World, December 2024
• Potlucks and politics, Anabaptist World, November 2024
• Confidence in God's Shepherding, Messenger Magazine, November 2024
• Breaking bread with the godfather of punk, Anabaptist World, October 2024
• Universal basic income and all-inclusive resorts (or What we learned on our all-inclusive vacation), Anabaptist World, September 2024
• Praise for Deliverance, Messenger Magazine, September 2024
• Be a perfect stranger, Anabaptist World, August 2024
• Abram builds an altar, Messenger Magazine, August 2024
• Hunger is hell, Anabaptist World, July 2024
• Harvesting weeds with Mary and Martha, Anabaptist World, June 2024
• Yes, your grandma’s food theology, Anabaptist World, May 2024
• None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover, Anabaptist World, April 2024
• When food doesn’t fix, Anabaptist World, March 2024
• Worship in the Covenant Community, Guide for Biblical Studies, fall 2024
• Don't look up . . . or stop eating, Anabaptist World, February 2024
• Hope Started this Adventure, Messenger, January/February 2024
• Can the table heal us? Anabaptist World, January 2024
• Cranberries and lemons: prayers in the bittersweet flavors of Christmas, Anabaptist World, December 2023
• Food choices and hospitality, Anabaptist World, November 2023
• Priceless = Precious (and pear cake), Anabaptist World, October 2023
• Creepy Crawlers, Anabaptist World, September 2023
• All things work together, Living Word Bulletin Series, July 2023
• Global Women's Project Lenten calendar, 2022
• Join Creation's Song, Living Word Bulletin Series, October 2022
• You are our peace, Living Word Bulletin Series, December 2021
• The Grieving Garden, Messenger, April 2021
• Speaking Truth to Power, Messenger, January/February 2021
• The Wild Way of Jesus, Brethren Press, 2021
• Pulling Down the Monuments, Femailings, July 2020
• 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)

Though she avoided taking preaching classes in seminary until her last semester so she could get an M.Div., sermons are currently 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
  
  
• Relevance 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 people who will hear it in my mind and heart. I realize they’ll be loosely held captive by me for about 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 vimeo or watch on youtube.

Anna Lisa is part of the Dunker Punks Podcast and Messenger Radio.