This three-part course will examine the theology that has emerged around and through social struggle in the US. We will look at the struggle for the abolition of slavery, tenant labor organizing, welfare rights and homeless organizing, all of which provided the basis for understanding the theology that is guiding and being discovered through the renewed call for a Poor People’s Campaign in 2018. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the material conditions that led to social struggle and the battle for biblical and theological ideas that emerged as part of those struggles.
Instructors
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Adam Barnes
Dr. Adam Barnes is the coordinator of the Rights and Religions program at the Kairos Center. Born in St. Louis, MO and raised in Colorado, he has lived in New York since 2006 and worked at the Poverty Initiative/Kairos Center since 2007. In 2016 he completed a PhD in … Read More ›
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Charon Hribar
Charon Hribar is the Director of Cultural Strategies at the Kairos Center. She also serves as the co-coordinator of Theomusicology and Movement Arts for the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Over the past 15 years, Charon has been dedicated to the work of political education, leadership … Read More ›
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Nicholas Laccetti
Nicholas Laccetti is the Communications Coordinator for the Kairos Center, and a member of the National Communications Team of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. He began his work at the Kairos Center as a Poverty Initiative fellow with the field education program at Union Theological … Read More ›
