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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice
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Committed to building a movement to end poverty, led by the poor
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SPECIAL BIBLE STUDY ALERT–This Wednesday, 6pm ET, join Dr. David Carr at Freedom Church of the Poor for a powerful study of Christian Nationalism and the Hebrew Scriptures.

Comment "Bible Study!" and we'll DM you the link to join.
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
You’re invited! Join us next Thursday for an in-person launch event for We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor. We’ll gather to uplift the prayers, songs, and rituals that sustain our movements for justice.

RSVP here: bit.ly/NOV6WPF
October 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
📢📢The Kairos Center is thrilled to announce the Young Organizers Survival Corps. The Young Organizers Survival Corps is a 7-month experience connecting you with fellow activists, organizers, and young people who are hungry to get organized for the long haul and resist authoritarianism.
October 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Oct. 22nd @ 6pm join us for a virtual film screening led by Shun Tucker-Allen and Dom Kelly. "Severed" follows Mohamad Saleh, a teenager from Gaza who lost his leg at 12. His story is personal and emblematic of the thousands of Palestinians disabled by Israel’s genocide.

kairos.org/freedomchurch
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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
October 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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!
October 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“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
September 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
✨ 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
September 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
✨ 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
September 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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”
September 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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
September 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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”
September 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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
September 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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”
September 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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”
September 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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”
September 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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”
September 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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”
August 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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
August 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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
August 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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“
August 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Only 12 days until “We Pray Freedom” hits the shelves! (preorder link in bio)

"May the Lord's holy fires alight upon the oppressive empire and make way for the kingdom of heaven on earth."–Tim Shenk from “Prayer for Pentecost”
August 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Only 13 days until “We Pray Freedom” hits the shelves! (preorder link in bio)

“May we hold each other fiercely with love through all that this short life brings." –Rev. West McNeill from “A Blessing for Peace and Resistance”
August 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
14 days left to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! Link in bio.

"We ring the bells for our best selves, yet to be. For our friends, Family, and all who join us in our quest for justice and an end to poverty amidst plenty." –Ashley Hufnagel from “A Bell Ceremony: The Ritual”
August 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“We Pray Freedom helps us breathe. During disarray and turmoil, we need prayers, rituals, and words to give forth new life and help sustain and empower us."

@gracejisunkim.bsky.social, professor of theology at Earlham School of Religion & author When God Became White and other books
August 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM