Rev Dr Liz Theoharis
Rev Dr Liz Theoharis is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign. She is the author of "Always with Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor" (2017).
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Views Thursday, May 13, 2021 Mother’s Day Tears and the Fierce Prophetic Vision of Poor Women One hundred and fifty years ago, in the bloody wake of the Civil War, the abolitionist Julia Ward Howe issued a " Mother's Day Proclamation ." The world, she wrote, could no longer bear such terrible violence and death. She called on women across the country to "rise up through the ashes and... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 05, 2021 The American Spiritual Death Spiral Fifty-four years ago, standing at the pulpit of Riverside Church in New York City, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his now-famous " Beyond Vietnam " sermon. For the first time in public, he expressed in vehement terms his opposition to the American war in Vietnam. He saw clearly that a foreign... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 16, 2021 We Must Put Human Life Before Corporate Profits In June 1990, future South African President Nelson Mandela addressed a joint session of Congress only months after being released from 27 years in a South African apartheid prison. He reminded the political leadership of the United States that "to deny people their human rights is to challenge... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 18, 2021 The Nation Must Have the Moral Courage To Carry on the Work of Martin Luther King Jr. 2020 will go down as the deadliest year in American history, significantly due to the devastation delivered by the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, count in nearly two trillion dollars in damage from climate events (many caused by, or heightened by, intensifying global warming), a surge of... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 14, 2020 The Ghosts of Christmas Present: GOP Kick the Most Vulnerable Amid Pandemic Martin Luther King, Jr., offered this all-too-relevant comment on his moment in his 1967 speech "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?": “The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 17, 2020 Grappling With a Divided Nation In the two weeks since Election 2020, the country has oscillated between joy and anger, hope and dread in an era of polarization sharpened by the forces of racism, nativism, and hate. Still, truth be told, though the divisive tone of this moment may only be sharpening, division in the United States... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 04, 2020 A New Nonviolent Medicaid Army Is on the March At the start of Tuesday’s unhinged presidential debate — as the pandemic continued to rage outside the walls of Case Western University — the American people were offered an anemic vision for promoting and expanding public health. In the shadow of more than 200,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 28, 2020 How Christian Nationalism in the US Legislates Evil and Punishes the Poor On August 26th, during the Republican National Convention, Vice President Mike Pence closed out his acceptance speech with a biblical sleight of hand. Speaking before a crowd at the Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore, he exclaimed, “Let’s fix our eyes on Old Glory and all she represents... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 02, 2020 Woe to You Who Legislate Evil and Rob the Poor of Their Rights On Monday, August 3, faith leaders with the Poor People's Campaign will flood Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Senate with calls saying that it is treacherous and heretical to hold up the Constitution and the Bible while trampling on the right of every person to life, liberty and the pursuit... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 21, 2020 Time to Stop Bankrolling War and the Wealthy The word jubilee comes from the Hebrew " yovel ," meaning a "trumpet blast of liberty." It was said that, on the day of liberation, the sound of a ram’s horn would ring through the land. These days, I hear the sound of that horn while walking with my kids through the streets of New York City, while... Read more |