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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 15h

You’re invited to our first in-person launch event for "We Pray Freedom." Join us for a powerful celebration of healing, remembrance, and collective action!

🕗 6:30pm ET
📍St. Augustine's Episcopal Church

RSVP: linktr.ee/KairosCenter

Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 2d

In 2024, 41.4% of Americans lived in poverty or one emergency away from it. As conditions and reporting get worse, we will all need to do three things: organize, organize, & organize!

Full breakdown at kairos.ghost.io/poverty-numb...

Huge thanks to @povertycenter.bsky.social for these estimates!

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 5d

Panel amplifies voices at intersection of Palestinian liberation & disability justice:
* Mohamad Salah, film protagonist + co-producer
* Dom Kelly, ED @DisabledSouth
*Sandra Tamari, ED @AdalahJustice
*Jen Deerinwater, ED @crushingcolonialism
Register: tinyurl.com/SevOct5

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 5d

Severed (2025) follows Mohamad Salah, a teen from Gaza who has lost his leg and survived 5 Israeli military assaults. His story reflects the thousands of Palestinians disabled by Israel’s ongoing #GazaGenocide. #Gaza #DisabilityJustice
Register: tinyurl.com/SevOct5

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 5d

Join us Oct 5 for virtual screening of Severed film + panel w/ protagonist Mohamad Salah from @donkeysaddleorg, Dom Kelly @DisabledSouth, Sandra Tamari @AdalahJustice, & Jen Deerinwater @crushingcolonialism 3pm ET | Zoom
Register: tinyurl.com/SevOct5

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: "Severed" Screening + Panel discussion. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Donkeysaddle Projects, New Disabled South, and Adalah Justice Project will launch a month-long campaign with a virtual screening of the new short documentary "Severed", followed by a discussion linkin...

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 7d

You’re invited to join Freedom Church of the Poor for their virtual We Pray Freedom launch event. The event will follow the 6 chapters of the book, & feature many of its contributors. Join us for a powerful evening of healing, remembrance, & taking action together.

kairoscenter.org/freedomchurch

Freedom Church of the Poor - Kairos Center

The mission of the Freedom Church of the Poor is to be a spiritual home for movement leaders and a place to help nurture moral leadership for the struggle to end poverty, systemic racism, ecological d...

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 13d

“The liturgies found in this collection are not just words, but powerful acts of justice and compassion that invite us into right relationship with each other, with creation, and with God.”

Richard Rohr, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation

Visit: WePrayFreedom.org

#WePrayFreedom

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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 27d

"In a Trumpian world, where Christian extremism is becoming the norm, we must not let the words of Beulah Sanders be forgotten or the worst fears of countless prophets and freedom fighters come true."

www.alternet.org/trump-using-...

Theologian says the 'Trump admin and its apologists are working overtime — using Jesus' name'

It was a moment somewhat like this, 30 years ago, that turned me into a biblical scholar. In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, political and religious leaders quoted scripture...

www.alternet.org

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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 28d

"The whole of the Christian Bible, starting with Genesis and ending with the Book of Revelation, has an arc of justice to it. The historical equivalents of anti-poverty programs run through it all."

www.nationofchange.org/2025/09/10/y...

You can’t worship God and money | NationofChange

www.nationofchange.org

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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 28d

“Over the past decades, the use of the Bible to justify what passes for ‘law and order’ (and the punishing of the poor) has only intensified."

Read on!
www.commondreams.org/opinion/bibl...

Beware Rich Men Quoting the Bible to Punish the Poor | Common Dreams

The Trump administration and its theological apologists are working overtime, using Jesus’ name and the Bible’s contents in even more devastating rounds of immoral biblical (mis)references.

www.commondreams.org

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 29d

✨ Launch day ✨

These prayers rise from the wisdom of poor and dispossessed communities—embodied practices that transform, empower & reclaim the sacred as collective action for justice. #WePrayFreedom

👉 bit.ly/WePrayFreedom

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 29d

A clear new piece on the misuse of the Bible in the war on the poor from @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 29d

"Such 'Christian' politicians regularly misuse Biblical passages to blame the impoverished for their poverty. There is never a suggestion that the rich, who have stolen people’s wages and engorged themselves by denying them healthcare, are in any way to blame."

Read on!
truthout.org/articles/tru...

Trump Admin, GOP Continue to Weaponize Bible to Punish Poor, Defend Imperialism

Willfully misinterpreting the Bible to justify what passes for “law and order” has only intensified in recent decades.

truthout.org

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 29d

✨ We Pray Freedom is out now—prayers + rituals for justice + liberation.
👉 bit.ly/WePrayFreedom
These aren’t just prayers—they’re blueprints for liberation.

#WePrayFreedom #WeSingFreedom #LiturgiesOfLiberation

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · Sep 8

TOMORROW “We Pray Freedom” launches! (order in bio)

"In a time of plenty marred by so much poverty, organizing for social, political, and economic change is holy work." –Charon Hribar from “Celebration”

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · Sep 7

2 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio)

"[Nehemiah] put the needs of the least of these who are most of us at the heart of the city -- at the heart of the society -- because the poor, the immigrants, the women, the LGBTQ people are the heart of God."–Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · Sep 6

3 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio)

“God, let our city not enjoy peace until we have justice. Let us not wave the flag of unity until we have equity.” –Lindsey Krinks from “A Prayer for a City or Town”

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · Sep 5

4 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio)

"We join together with the ancient witnesses of our faiths, to weep, wail, and mourn until we finally get the nation's attention." –Rev. Dr. Jessica Williams

"We will continue to organize and fight!" –Rev. Dr. Letiah Fraser

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · Sep 4

5 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio)

"Love rises into action, love flows through us and among and beyond us to our siblings in exodus because love knows no borders.” –Rev. Dr. Beth Johnson from “A Prayer for Migrant Justice”

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · Sep 3

6 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio)

"Goddess born from the struggle between good and evil, guide us toward the light. In a world where plenty is possible, let us end hunger, thirst, and homelessness." –Shailly Gupta Barnes from “A Prayer for Diwali”

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · Sep 2

ONE WEEK LEFT to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio)

“No one is getting left behind this time, we get there together or never get there at all.” –Joshua Blaine from "We Get There Together, Passover Seder: The Ritual”

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · Sep 1

8 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio)

"We breathe as one with all life and dedicate our breath to remembering and protecting and taking good care of those most basic and essential elements of life -- for all."–Karenna Gore from “Liturgy for the Earth”

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · Aug 31

9 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio)

"If we get caught up in our rituals and don't hear the cry of the poor... then our fasting is in vain."–Jamel Coy Hudson from “A Ramadan Ritual”

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · Aug 30

10 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio)

“Courage, my friend, you do not move alone. We will move with you, and sing your spirit home.” –Ciara Taylor from a South African Anti-Apartheid Movement Song

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · Aug 30

Freedom Church of the Poor invites you to our final Black August service — a sacred space of remembrance, resistance, and renewal in this Season of Jubilee.

Sunday, August 31st @ 6PM ET
For info/RSVP: kairoscenter.org/freedomchurch

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · Aug 29

Only 11 days until “We Pray Freedom” hits the shelves! (preorder link in bio)

"Oramos por las almas de las personas fallecidas en los desiertos, en las montañas, en los rios y oceanos en su camino por una mejor vida." –ana g. lara lopez from “Día de los Muertos and All Saints' Day: The Prayer“

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