The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will be in Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 7:00 pm at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, kicking off a series of Mass Meetings to be held across the country in the coming months.
For Religion Dispatches, Kairos Center communications coordinator Nicholas Laccetti reflects on the necessary relationship between the unity and leadership of the poor and the call for a national moral revival, and how Kairos’ analysis differs from the recently trendy idea of a “revived religious left.”
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Kairos co-director and national co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, explains Matthew 14:13-21 in the light of Jesus’ poor people’s campaign in Roman-occupied Palestine, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967-68 Poor People’s Campaign, and the call for a new Poor People’s Campaign for today to take up the unfinished business of Dr. King.
Congratulations from the Kairos Center to Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, who has been consecrated Bishop for his work building a new Poor People’s Campaign with Repairers of the Breach! We see no better candidate for Bishop than he in this time and in this place. We are all in need of his moral and spiritual guidance, care, and charge. The Kairos Center affirms his apostolic call.
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.
Essays, books, and more from Kairos Center staff, members, Fellows, and Poverty Scholars. Including: our collection of writings on religions and social movements, “The Spirit of Struggle”; Willie Baptist’s “The Pedagogy of the Poor”; and selections from our blog and more than 10 years of work, thinking, and writing.
A collection of New 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.