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Dear friend,

Along with organizers and scholars in our network, the Kairos Center has been leading thought and challenging narratives around poverty, organizing, and the Bible in the United States for decades. From memoirs of Ron Casanova to the forthcoming book of liturgies curated by Freedom Church of the Poor, each book has added to the toolkit of those of us struggling for liberation. In this letter, we’ll flesh out your summer reading list with twenty books written by and featuring authors near to the heart, soul, and mind of the Kairos Center.

A movement begins with the telling of untold stories,

The Kairos Team

New & Noteworthy
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We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor

Edited by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis & Dr. Charon Hribar

Learn from organizers and movement builders the songs, stories, and ritual practices that keep them going for the long haul. This book guides readers through a journey of remembering, healing, mourning, action, and celebration. It is a collection of prayers, resources, and stories from the communities in which they arose.
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You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take

By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis & Noam Sandweiss-Back

Weaving together threads of history, theology, political analysis, this book argues that to reorient our society around the needs of all and reinvigorate the promise of democracy, the poor can and must become the architects of a new America.
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Timely & Timeless

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Bring Back Your People: Ten Ways Regular Folks Can Put a Dent in White Christian Nationalism

by Aaron Scott

Broadleaf Books, 2025
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Trash: A Poor White Journey

by Cedar Monroe

Broadleaf Books, 2024
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Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign

by Colleen Wessel-McCoy

Fortress Academic, 2023
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Aftermath: Life in Post-Roe America

edited by Elizabeth G. Hines

Chapter: “Controlling Bodies and Subverting Democracy: How Dobbs Is an Attack on Us All”

by The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis.

She Writes Press, 2022
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Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice

edited by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Ernesto Verdeja

Chapter: “Challenging the Violence of the State through a Movement to End Poverty”

by Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back.

Oxford University Press, 2022
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We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign

edited by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

Broadleaf Books, 2021
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Jesus Led a Poor People's Campaign: Sermons from the Movement to End Poverty

by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Solita Alexander Riley, Aaron Scott, Rev. Jessica C. Williams, Rev. Erica N. Williams, Willie Baptist, Rev. Dan Chadwick, Rev. Emily McNeill, and Colleen Wessel-McCoy

Self Published, 2019
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Always with Us? What Jesus Really Said about the Poor

by Liz Theoharis

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2017
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Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis: Political Exegesis for a New Day

edited by Bruce Worthington

Chapter: “Reading the Bible with the Poor Building a Social Movement, Led by the Poor, as a United Social Force"

by Liz Theoharis and Willie Baptist.

Fortress Press, 2015
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Common Good(s): Economy, Ecology, and Political Theology

edited by Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Catherine Keller, and Elias Ortega-Aponte

Chapter: “The Myth of the Middle: Common Sense, Good Sense and Rethinking the ‘Common Good’ in Contemporary U.S. Society”

by Charon Hribar

Fordham University Press, 2015
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Out of the Depths: Poetry of Poverty--Courage and Resilience

edited by Susan Deborah King

Holy Cow! Press, 2015
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Sacred Seed

edited by Dr. Vandana Shiva

Chapter: “And the Last Shall Be First”

by Adam Barnes, Shailly Barnes, Rev. Kathy Maskell, and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.

The Golden Sufi Center, 2014
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Pedagogy of the Poor: Building the Movement to End Poverty

By Willie Baptist and Jan Rehmann

Teachers College Press, 2011
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Resilience and Unemployment: Perspectives on Social Ethics ([link removed])

edited by Aamaas, Keenan, Sedmak, and van der Zijden

Chapter: “Resilience, Unemployment, and the U.S. Economic Crisis: Developing a Radical Christian Response”

by Charon Hribar

LIT Verlag Münster, 2011
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A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign

Self Published, 2009
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Appalachia: Listening With Our Hearts

Self Published, 2007
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Katrina: Listening With Our Hearts

Self Published, 2006
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Each One Teach One: Up and Out of Poverty, Memoirs of a Street Activist Hardcover

by Ron Casanova

Curbstone Books, 1996

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