Lissa Wray Beal

Rev. Dr. Lissa Wray Beal ministers as Professor of Old Testament at Wycliffe College, Toronto School of Theology. An ordained priest in the Anglican Church, she earned her PhD from the University of St. Michael’s College. Her teaching engages the Old Testament’s enduring witness to God and its necessary role in New Testament faith. In published commentaries on Kings, Joshua and Jeremiah (forthcoming), and articles on Kings, Joshua, Psalms, and Jeremiah, she attends to God’s work in a broken and suffering world. She finds the Psalms to be a constant and surprising resource for the vocabulary of the life of faith and loves to teach this book that has been treasured in churches and synagogues through the centuries. She and her husband Steve enjoy travelling and often feel like pilgrims as they visit cathedrals and trace the lives of the saints.