Stacie Lightner

Sister Stacie Lightner grew up on a farm outside Garden City, Kansas. She started piano lessons when she was five years old and organ lessons when she was eighteen. She earned bachelor’s degrees in organ performance and religious studies from The University of Kansas and then spent a year studying organ in Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship. She returned to KU to pursue a master’s degree in church music, followed by a doctor of music in organ performance at McGill University in Montreal. During her doctoral studies she developed a passion for hymnody and liturgy while simultaneously serving as the chapel organist at a Presbyterian seminary and singing in an Anglo-Catholic church choir that specialized in chant and Renaissance polyphony. In 2018, Sister Stacie was consecrated a Deacon in the ELCA.  She is a member of the Deaconess Community of the ELCA and, therefore, uses the title “Sister.”