Dr. Lisa Hancock is the newly hired Director of Worship Arts at Discipleship Ministries. Lisa is a lifelong United Methodist whose passion for worship and the arts began when she joined children’s choir at 3 years old, eventually leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees in sacred music. While completing her Master of Sacred Music at Perkins School of Theology, Lisa discerned a call to develop a systematic theology through the lens of disability. She earned a PhD in Religious Studies with the dissertation “Jesus Christ, Revelation of Love: A Christology of the Disabled Christ.” Lisa’s recent work included worship guides for the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund and co-authoring curriculum on disability theology and anti-ableism for “The Julian Way,” a ministry of education and empowerment with, for, and by persons of diverse embodiments that she co-founded with her spouse, Rev. Justin Hancock. Join us for this fascinating conversation about worship, embodiment, and art.
