Welcome! I’m Lisa, a writer, speaker, and art history PhD who loves to walk the paths of the ancient Christian faith—especially my favorite time period, the Middle Ages.

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I’m pleased to announce that I’m writing a book on pilgrimage with Fortress Press.
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A World Transformed: Exploring the Spirituality of Medieval Maps

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OTHER PUBLISHED WORKS

A Packing List for Jerusalem

A Packing List for Jerusalem

By the Garden Gate: A Journey With Robert Campin

By the Garden Gate: A Journey With Robert Campin

Life on the Edge: The Decentered World of Alexander the Great

Life on the Edge: The Decentered World of Alexander the Great

Stigm(at)a: Facing the Mirror of the Wounds of Christ

Stigm(at)a: Facing the Mirror of the Wounds of Christ

Road to Revelation: The Art of Caravaggio in Salley Vickers’s The Other Side of You

Road to Revelation: The Art of Caravaggio in Salley Vickers’s The Other Side of You

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A Medieval Prayer for the World

by | January 12, 2016 | Featured Blog Posts, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Today, the Church remembers Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167), abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx in Yorkshire. I wanted to share with you a beautiful passage from his De institutione inclusarum (The Formation of Anchoresses) on praying—and more—for the world....
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A Medium Aevum Advent (a post at the Ancient-Future Faith Network)

by | December 2, 2015 | Featured Blog Posts, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

This week I'm over at the Ancient-Future Faith Network with an Advent reflection. How does a medievalist mother experience the coming of Christ? What does a battered manger scene have to do with it? Here's a peek: I’m heartened to see more and more Christians keeping...
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Kitchen Sink Spirituality

by | January 31, 2015 | Featured Blog Posts | 0 Comments

Washing the dishes isn’t included in the books on spiritual disciplines—not in Richard Foster’s classic Celebration of Discipline or Adele Calhoun’s more recent Spiritual Disciplines Handbook, which describes a whopping 62 disciplines. But maybe it should be. In...
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