Rev. Liz Theoharis
(Born 1976) Anti-poverty activist, Presbyterian Minister, biblical scholar, and author.
Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Theoharis is the co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival, and the Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church. She is Editor of the 2021 book, We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People's Campaign.
“…Demand that this nation hear, see, and do something about the scourge of racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the denial of healthcare, militarism, this war economy, and this false and really evil distorted narrative of religious white Christian nationalism. ...We have a role to play and a power to bring in enlivening and enlarging what is now an impoverished democracy, but which can be a society that works for everybody. ”
“We see movements…take up those Biblical and theological foundations, and be able to push forward a new vision, but that’s rooted in these values, that says that everybody must be in, nobody can be left out, and that when you lift from the bottom everybody rises.”