| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) |
| Contents |
Is ending poverty possible? / Liz Theoharis -- What we wish for Solita / Alexander Riley -- Jesus was a poor man / Jessica C. Williams -- God created enough / Daniel Jones -- Give us this day our daily bread / Melanie Mullen -- Of the poor, for the poor / Colleen Wessel-McCoy -- A harvest for all people / Claire Chadwick -- The power to cry justice / Idalin Luz Montes Bobé -- When your jin fall into difficulty / Tejai Beulah -- The law that disinherits is not God's law / Brigitte Kahl -- Jesus came to set it off / Erica N. Williams -- You must let us wail / Stephen Pavey -- Pray for the dead, fight for the living / Erica N. Williams -- Wake up, Jonah / Karenna Gore -- We are not tractors / Liz Theoharis -- What will you lift up? / Letiah Fraser -- How bread can divide or dignify / Melanie Mullen -- When idols speak, people can't / Michael Pollack -- Naboth's vineyard and the struggle for Oak Flat / Adam Barnes -- Should we sit at the table--or turn it over? / Janelle Bruce -- Don't you want to improve your community? / Leonardo Vilchis -- Resurrecting hope / Keith M. Bullard II -- Denied dignity in life and in death / Liz Theoharis -- Walking off the job to help God / Aaron Scott -- A mixed multitude / Daniel Jones -- The power the ground holds / Becca Forsyth -- When women testify, things change / Tejai Beulah -- Touching the wounds of a disabled God / Letiah Eraser -- Find a mule, spread a movement / Clinton Wright -- Is it really all that bad? / Aaron Scott -- Blame the poor or judge the rich? / Liz Theoharis -- Persistence of the poor / Erica N. Williams -- In the beginning, there was care / Solita Alexander Riley -- A hurt and angry God / Daniel Jones -- Steadfast spirit for justice / Claire Chadwick -- Expose yourself, expose the empire / Adam Barnes -- Beastly economics / C. Wess Daniels -- Learn as we lead / Jessica C. Williams -- What doth the Lord require? / Liz Theoharis -- If not us, who? / Aaron Scott -- Woe to you who pass unjust laws / Charon Hribar -- Is that what you call a fast? / Nicholas Laccetti -- Las Posadas / Kenia Torres-Alcocer -- Song of revolutionary mothers / Savina J. Martin -- Midwives who say no / Tammy Rojas -- Whose law and whose order? / Solita Alexander Riley -- Survival economics / Sarah Monroe -- The empire's receipts / C. Wess Daniels -- What the way looks like / Tonny H. Algood -- Band-Aids or justice / Carolyn Jean Foster -- Same sin, different day / Aaron Scott -- How to survive a pandemic / Marco Saavedra -- We who are becoming / Noam Sandweiss-Back |
| Summary |
"From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible proclaims justice and abundance for the poor. Yet these powerful passages about poverty are frequently overlooked and misinterpreted. Enter the Poor People's Campaign, a movement against racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and religious nationalism. In We Cry Justice, Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the campaign, is joined by pastors, community organizers, scholars, low-wage workers, lay leaders, and people in poverty to interpret sacred stories about the poor seeking healing, equity, and freedom. In a world roiled by poverty and injustice, Scripture still speaks. Organized into fifty-two chapters, each focusing on a key Scripture passage, We Cry Justice offers comfort and challenge from the many stories of the poor taking action together. Read anew the story of the exodus that frees people from debt and slavery, the prophets who denounce the rich and ruling classes, the stories of Jesus's healing and parables about fair wages, and the early church's sharing of goods. Reflection questions and a short prayer at the end of each chapter offer the opportunity to use the book devotionally through a year."--Publisher's website |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed October 17, 2023) |
| Subject |
Poor People's Campaign (2018- )
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| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Reading.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013712
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| Subject |
Poverty in the Bible.
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Poverty -- Biblical teaching.
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Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Religion and justice.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Theoharis, Liz, editor.
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Barber, William J., II, 1963- writer of foreward.
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| ISBN |
1506473652 |
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9781506473659 |
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