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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 |
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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 Click a cover for more info |
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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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| 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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