On December 31, 2018 — New Year’s Eve — Kairos Center Director and Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival Co-Chair Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis preached at the Poor People’s Campaign’s Watch Night service in Raleigh, North Carolina. Here are her remarks.
In 2018, along with being at the heart of the largest wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in the 21st Century, the Kairos Center continued to provide a deeper analysis of the kairos moment in which we find ourselves today. Here are some of the highlights of our work from over the past year.
On November 15, 2018, we celebrated the Kairos Center’s 5th Anniversary with a special class and reception. Read an excerpt from Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis’ remarks during the class on the role of faith leadership in our movement building.
Earlier this week, we held a Kairos Center Christmas Bible Study to revive the liberative power of the Biblical stories that are at the root of the Christmas holiday. Rather than sentimental tales, these stories are rooted in themes like the critique of empire, migrant justice, and the leadership of the poor.
AMERICA WILL BE is a film project documenting how organizers across the country are building the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival to help us become the nation we’ve not yet been.
Learn more about the Kairos Center’s Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis’ theological call for ending the abomination of systemic poverty, out from Eerdmans on April 21, 2017.
A collection of Poor People’s Campaign resources for study on poverty today, history, and Dr. King’s vision, created in collaboration with the national organizing tour towards a new Poor People’s Campaign for today. Includes concept papers about the call for a new Poor People’s Campaign, writings about key struggles of the poor today, important passages from Rev. Dr. King’s writing and speeches, and more.