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On Friday, November 3 at 1 PM EST, join the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-director of the Kairos Center and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, for an online conversation with Dr. Adam Barnes on religion, the Bible, and the movement to end poverty, reflecting on their recent interview for the Kairos Center.
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, author of Always with Us? What Jesus Really Said About the Poor, has spent the last two decades with grassroots, community-led, anti-poverty organizations working to build the movement to end poverty. As a culmination of these efforts, the Poor People’s Campaign seeks to unite the poor and dispossessed into a broad social movement that will confront the forces that degrade and take life.
We at the Kairos Center affirm that this is not only a struggle against specific laws and policies, but a struggle for our deepest moral and religious beliefs. Dr. Adam Barnes, coordinator of the Rights and Religion program at the Kairos Center, has worked at the Poverty Initiative/Kairos Center since 2007. In 2016 he completed a PhD in Comparative Theology at Union Theological Seminary, with a dissertation that investigates the liberative theology and spirituality emerging from anti-poverty struggles in the US and in a Sufi-Muslim community in West Africa.
This online conversation will focus on the religious and spiritual insights arising through the Poor People’s Campaign and through Rev. Dr. Theoharis’ many years working to build a social movement in this country. It is part of the Kairos Center’s ongoing effort to reflect upon the liberative theology and spirituality that is developing from below amidst the struggles of the poor and dispossessed today. It is also part of our broader effort to re-claim the language and power of religion, spirituality, and human rights from those who use these ideas to divide and degrade people.
Readings
In order to prepare for the webinar, please read the following pieces from the Kairos Center and from Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, the co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival:
- Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Dr. Adam Barnes, “Reflections on Religion, the Bible, and the Movement to End Poverty,” Kairos Center.
- Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, “Trump’s Evangelical Fans Preach the Gospel of Greed, Not Grace,” NBC Think.
This seminar is over—if you missed it, listen to the audio below and look out for a transcribed and edited version to be released later this month on the Kairos blog!
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