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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

@liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org
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ED of @kairoscenter.org, Co-Founder, Poor People's Campaign, Author of You Only Get What You're Organized to Take: Lessons From the Movement to End Poverty (Beacon Press). liztheoharis.org

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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
It seems fitting that the coalition that came together to fight this case and protect the rights of asylum seekers calls itself “No Turning Back.”Because indeed, there can be no turning back for any of us. Either we get there together or we never get there at all.🧵
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
And here’s the truth of these times: this administration has nothing to offer everyday people, other than hardened borders and wars that nobody wants.🧵
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
The government is hoping that we don’t make the connections between the stripping away of asylum rights, the larger issue of immigrant rights, and the many other ways that it’s targeting “the least among us.” Across our religions, all life is sacred, full stop! 🧵
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
In our interfaith amicus brief, we wrote: “As the many faiths practiced by this country’s citizens teach, a society that does not protect the least among us is a failed society.” 🧵
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
A coalition of interfaith orgs held a prayer vigil on the steps of SCOTUS to call attention to the case. Rev. Michael Neuroth shared, “Welcoming and protecting the stranger is not a minor tenet of our faith but is a foundational moral obligation in each of our traditions.”🧵
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
In our amicus brief, we reflected on the varied lineages as that pertain to the right to seek asylum: Congress adopted our current asylum laws in significant part due to the efforts of faith-based groups seeking to uphold deeply held societal, moral, and cultural principles.”🧵
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
The statements and reactions of some of the judges reveal that the majority of the Supreme Court may no longer agree with that foundational vision for this country .🧵
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
George Washington wrote, “I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.”
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
The DHS would have the legal backing to turn away thousands of people at the border, clearing the way for more border closures. The results of Noem v. Al Otro Lado will reveal the lengths to which the Supreme Court is willing to backstop the president’s assault on democracy.🧵
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
Although the turnback policy has not been in effect since 2021, when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declared it unlawful, the Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to review the case. 🧵
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
The U.S. is obligated not to send vulnerable people back into danger without first allowing them to seek protection. The Trump admin directly undermined this. As a result, vulnerable children, families, and adults were forced to remain indefinitely stranded in perilous conditions in Mexico. 🧵
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
The case focuses on the legality of a 2018 Trump border policy blocking access to the U.S. asylum process for people arriving at the border. The turnback policy flouts our society’s most deeply held legal and moral values. 🧵
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
Mulin (formerly Noem) v. Al Otro Lado, the most significant case on the right to asylum in decades. In February, the Kairos Center authored an interfaith amicus brief on that very case, alongside 31 denominations and organizations representing faith traditions practiced by billions worldwide.🧵
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 25/06/2026
Today, the Supreme Court dealt a major blow to asylum protections in a decision that strikes at the moral bedrock of our nation. Read about faith leaders' intervention in this case.🧵 liztheoharis.org/give-me-your...
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 10/05/2026
Read this important thread from my amazing sister @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social about the powerful and visionary Coretta Scott King…
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Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice @uusj.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Freedom Demands We Organize: A National UU Call to Moral Action Tuesday, May 5th 8:00 pm ET • 7:00 pm CT • 6:00 pm MT • 5:00 pm PT Get Your Tickets here: bit.ly/We-Organize
The prophets suggest constructing society around the needs of the poor: Stop gentrifying communities, stop allowing the cops to terrorize, start paying your workers just wages, build your society from the bottom up...

We are to organize society around the least of these, who are most of us.
--Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis


Freedom Demands We Organize 
A National UU Call to Moral Action 

Tuesday, May 5th 
8:00 pm ET • 7:00 pm CT • 6:00 pm MT • 5:00 pm PT


Get Your Tickets here:  bit.ly/We-Organize
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 22/04/2026
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor… The Case for Asylum in These Less Than United States tomdispatch.com/give-me-your...
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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor…
In late March, I sat in the gallery of the Supreme Court for the first time in my life. Throughout my 30 years of grassroots anti-poverty work, I've joined countless protests and vigils outside the
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Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice @uusj.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Freedom Demands We Organize A National UU Call to Moral Action Join Rev. Liz Theoharis for a gathering to help #UUs meet this moment with courage, solidarity, and strategic action. Tuesday, May 5th 8:00 pm ET • 7:00 pm CT • 6:00 pm MT • 5:00 pm PT • 4:00 pm AT • 2:00 pm HT 🔗 bit.ly/We-Organize
Freedom Demands We Organize
A National UU Call to Moral Action 

Join Rev. Liz Theoharis for a gathering to help Unitarian Universalists  meet this moment with courage, solidarity, and strategic action.

Tuesday, May 5th
 8:00 p.m. ET • 7:00 p.m. CT • 6:00 p.m. MT • 5:00 p.m. PT • 4:00 p.m. AT • 2:00 p.m. HT

Get Your Tickets here:  bit.ly/We-Organize
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Sargent Shriver Peace Institute @shriverpeace.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The second conversation, moderated by historian Adam Green, who wrote the introduction and annotations for the memoir, featured Rev. Liz Theoharis and Bobby Shriver.
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
From TomDispatch last evening: Liz Theoharis, "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor... The Case for Asylum in These Less Than United States" tomdispatch.com/give-me-your...
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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor…
In late March, I sat in the gallery of the Supreme Court for the first time in my life. Throughout my 30 years of grassroots anti-poverty work, I've joined countless protests and vigils outside the
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Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice @uusj.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Freedom Demands We Organize: A National UU Call to Moral Action Join Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis for a gathering to help #UUs meet this moment with courage, solidarity, & strategic action. Tuesday, May 5th 8:00 pm ET • 7:00 pm CT • 6:00 pm MT • 5:00 pm PT Buy Your Tickets Here: bit.ly/We-Organize
Freedom Demands We Organize: A National UU Call to Moral Action 

Purple background with light purple box that says: Join Rev. Dr.  Liz Theoharis for a gathering to help #UUs meet this moment with courage, solidarity, and strategic action, beside a picture of Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis wearing a black shirt and a preist collar. 

Tuesday, May 5th
 8:00 pm ET • 7:00 pm CT • 6:00 pm MT • 5:00 pm PT • 4:00 pm AT • 2:00 pm HT

Buy Your Tickets Here: bit.ly/We-Organize
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 21/04/2026
Here’s the truth of these times: this administration has nothing to offer everyday people, other than hardened borders and wars that nobody wants. www.commondreams.org/opinion/asyl...
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The Jingoist States of America: Our Cruel Mistreatment of Asylum Seekers | Common Dreams
At such a moment in history, a movement that connects the dots between our many struggles is certainly the way forward. The plight of refugees—and how we treat them as a society—is a story that connec...
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 17/04/2026
My remarks at the LBJ Presidential Library @lbjlibrary.bsky.social - Poverty in America Today youtu.be/k4iUQoSyfh8?...
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The State of the American Dream: Poverty in America Today
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
@kairoscenter.org’s @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org blesses the crowd and calls out the sin of how we treat the migrant and the refugee (as Jesus’ family was) on this Good Friday.
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Presbyterian Outlook @presoutlook.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Pictures taken by @gdbrekke.bsky.social for the Pesbyterian Outlook.
More than 400 faith leaders crowded the sanctuary of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning, January 29, 2026, to pray and organize, urging the U.S. Senate to vote against further funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and for greater oversight of the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel. Photo by Gregg Brekke for Presbyterian Outlook.A group of 80 faith leaders engaged in civil protest on Thursday, January 29, where they sang and sat in the building’s atrium. They were arrested and booked on a misdemeanor charge of impeding business flow. Photo by Gregg Brekke for Presbyterian Outlook.

More than 400 faith leaders crowded the sanctuary of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning, January 29, 2026, to pray and organize, urging the U.S. Senate to vote against further funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and for greater oversight of the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel. Photo by Gregg Brekke for Presbyterian Outlook.Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis is placed under arrest by US Capitol Police during a Faith in Action civil disobedience action at the Hart Senate building, along with 80 other interfaith leaders gathered, urging the Senate to vote no on continued funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration Control and Enforcement (ICE). Photo by Gregg Brekke for Presbyterian Outlook.
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Presbyterian Outlook @presoutlook.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
More than 400 faith leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., to pray, organize and speak out — urging the U.S. Senate to vote no on continued DHS funding without meaningful oversight of ICE. —@gdbrekke.bsky.social “This is where the church needs to be,” said @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org
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Faith leaders gather in Washington, D.C. to urge Senate vote against DHS funding
Faith In Action coalition of 40 faith-based organizations and dozens of denominations join in advocacy and action.
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Please amplify: Faith leaders including my sister Rev. @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org of the @kairoscenter.org getting arrested now demanding, "Not in our name. No funding for ICE!" www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...
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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
For today’s devotional, @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org of @kairoscenter.org and @unitethepoor.bsky.social reminds us we are called to help bring the empire of God — not of any power or principality — into being. And as the Lord’s Prayer exhorts, resist the temptations and trappings of the unjust.
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Unsettling Advent 2025, Day 9
“He shall defend the needy among the people; he shall rescue the poor and crush the oppressor.
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Presbyterian Outlook @presoutlook.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals From the Freedom Church of the Poor "We Pray Freedom," edited by Liz Theoharis and Charon Hribar, curates liturgies and prayers rooted in justice, healing, and community. — Amy Pagliarella @broadleafbooks.bsky.social @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org
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We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals From the Freedom Church of the Poor
"We Pray Freedom," edited by Liz Theoharis and Charon Hribar, gathers liturgies, prayers and poems linking justice, advocacy and the gospel.
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Presbyterian Outlook @presoutlook.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals From the Freedom Church of the Poor "We Pray Freedom," edited by Liz Theoharis and Charon Hribar, curates liturgies and prayers rooted in justice, healing, and community. — Amy Pagliarella @broadleafbooks.bsky.social @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org
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We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals From the Freedom Church of the Poor
"We Pray Freedom," edited by Liz Theoharis and Charon Hribar, gathers liturgies, prayers and poems linking justice, advocacy and the gospel.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“We must build the strength to make a theological and spiritual vision of everybody-in-nobody-out a reality and create the capacity, powered by faith, to make it so. Now is the time.” — @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org
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You Can’t Worship God and Money
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
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 04/10/2025
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America...
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Over the past decades, not just during Trump’s terms, the use of the Bible to justify what passes for “law and order” (and the punishing of the poor) has only intensified. @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org says this is anything but new in the US.
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You Can’t Worship God and Money
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
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
You can’t, but that hasn’t stopped Republican politicians and religious leaders from using biblical references to punish the poor. @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org
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You Can’t Worship God and Money
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
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
In a Trumpian world, we must build the strength to make a theological and spiritual vision of everybody-in-nobody-out a reality and create the capacity, powered by faith, to make it so. 🧵END
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
I come from the welfare rights movement with leaders like Beulah Sanders who told the Nat. Council of Churches, “We ask for your moral, personal, & financial support in this battle for bread, dignity, and justice for all of our people. If we fail in our struggle, Christianity will have failed.” 🧵10
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
From the daily bread of Exodus to the prophets who insist that the way to love and honor God is to promote programs that uplift the poor and marginalized, the whole Christian Bible has an arc of justice to it with historical equivalents of anti-poverty programs. 🧵9
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
An American battle for the Bible is not new. Slavers, industrial capitalists, segregationists, etc, cherrypicked the texts to self-justify. Now the text is used to justify “law & order”, with Gov. Huckabee Sanders, & SOTH Johnson using Romans to say, “Authorities that exist are appointed by God.” 🧵8
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
Thiel offers an “antichrist” lecture series hosted by Michelle Stephens, who writes, “While social justice movements have done a great deal to point out our society’s longstanding sins [...], it can be tempting for that message to become more prominent than our innate need for Jesus to save us.” 🧵7
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
Peter Thiel’s cohort of right-wing “Christian” politicians & technofascists are dictating policy. In July, Trump signed an EO removing housing encampments in DC. Thiel & his cohort are responsible for the attacks on unhoused people & for the arrests of faith leaders opposing this abuse. 🧵6
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
Reps. Kevin Cramer, Stephen Lee Fincher, & Mo Brooks used similar language to categorize people as worthy or not. Such “Christian” politicians misuse the Bible to blame poverty on the poor, never suggesting that the rich, who steal wages and deny healthcare, are in any way to blame. 🧵5
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
Other Republican politicians use biblical references to justify cutting people from healthcare and SNAP. Defending OBBBA, Rep. Jodey Arrington, quoted 2 Thessalonians, saying: “If a man will not work, he shall not eat. [...] I think it’s a reasonable expectation that we have work requirements.” 🧵4
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
Speaker (SOTH) Johnson & congressional republicans prayed on the House floor before codifying OBBBA, which will cut millions of Americans from life-saving food and healthcare–a bizarre counterpoint to Jesus feeding 5,000 and providing free health care to lepers. 🧵3
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
In July, DHS used the “Here I am, Lord. Send me” quote from Isaiah to recruit new ICE agents. War Sec. Pete Hegseth’s former pastor went even further to marry the Bible to anti-immigrant hatred by saying, “Is the Bible in favor of these ICE raids?… The answer is yes.” 🧵2
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
Trump’s theological apologists use Jesus’s name & the Bible’s texts to justify deadly, inhumane, & unchristian policy/action. 30 years ago, these same texts were used to prop up American imperial power & punish the poor via the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. This led me to become a biblical scholar. 🧵1
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
Speaker Johnson & congressional republicans prayed on the House floor before codifying OBBBA, which will cut millions of Americans from life-saving food and healthcare–a bizarre counterpoint to Jesus feeding 5,000 and providing free health care to lepers. 🧵3
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 18/09/2025
In July, DHS used the “Here I am, Lord. Send me” quote from Isaiah to recruit new ICE agents. War Sec. Pete Hegseth’s former pastor went even further to marry the Bible to anti-immigrant hatred by saying, “Is the Bible in favor of these ICE raids?… The answer is yes.” 🧵2
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org · 11/09/2025
"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-...
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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...
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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 09/09/2025
✨ 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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