Lissa M. Wray Beal
The Rev. Dr. Lissa Wray Beal is Professor of Old Testament at Wycliffe College, Toronto School of Theology, and an ordained Anglican priest. She holds a PhD from the University of St. Michael’s College and writes on the Old Testament’s witness to God in both history and everyday life.
About the Contributor
The Rev. Dr. Lissa Wray Beal lives in Toronto where she 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, suffering world. She loves the artfulness of Old Testament narratives that reveal a God working through politics and on the grand stage of history, while also working in the intimacy of individual lives.
She and her husband Steve enjoy travelling, and often feel like pilgrims as they visit cathedrals and trace the lives of the saints.
Lissa M. Wray Beal's Work
Sep 17, 2025
God Is with Us
Lissa M. Wray Beal
Jesus’ temple visit echoes Exodus: God’s glory once filled the tabernacle; now Christ is that glory, dwelling with us to make us his holy temple.