Kairos Center

06/02/2026

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 15TH

Are you a part of a Christian congregation or do you know someone who would be interested in being trained to meet this moment as people of faith?

White Christian nationalism creates theological justification for xenophobic, homophobic, and misogynistic laws and attitudes. It is also powering the genocide in Gaza, the climate crisis, and racist ideologies like the Great Replacement Theory.

Showing Up for Racial Justice and Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice are partnering to help congregations respond to this moment and lead efforts for change in their communities. Through this 9-month program, congregations will gain an understanding of Christian Nationalism’s relationship to poverty and racism and how these are manifesting in their communities. Congregations will be equipped to engage in ministries to address poverty, racism, and Christian Nationalism and live out the gospel call for justice and abundant life for all people.

The deadline to apply to be a part of the upcoming cohort is June 1, 2026.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSck8MISFWt4E8FZUVYn451mUb7ds8wldwW0I59AUULFlpoTgA/viewform

05/31/2026

Please join us this Sunday, May 31st as we continue the season of Pride at Freedom Church of the Poor.

This Pride Season Freedom Church of the Poor will uplift the sacred authority, clarity, insight, and commitment of q***r and trans leaders before us and today. Drawing from lessons of historic survival organizing drives of LGBTQ+ leaders and saints like the Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries, ACT UP, and more, we will examine the role that projects of survival and movement building have long been a part of our q***r and trans traditions. We will empower leading trans and q***r organizers across the country to declare the truth: God works within us and around us, and we will organize and struggle for liberation for us all!

Tonight’s service will feature Shun Tucker Allen, Rev. Dr. Letiah Fraser, Min. Moses Hernandez McGavin, Min. ana, Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge, Ronika McClain, & Ro Moresby

Note: We invite everyone to bring a small bowl, cup, or glass of water for tonight's service for a ritual centering water.

05/29/2026

We stand in solidarity with our neighbors being detained in Delaney Hall, those who are participating in the hunger strike, and the community showing up outside the walls. Their demands are simple: 1) meet with the governor, 2) release medically vulnerable people, 3) release young and elderly detainees, and 4) FREEDOM.

We are heartened by the courage and clarity of the strikers, along with the wrap around support from the community more broadly. If you can, show up or support via donation.

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05/29/2026

Are you a part of a Christian congregation or do you know someone who would be interested in being trained to meet this moment as people of faith?

White Christian nationalism creates theological justification for xenophobic, homophobic, and misogynistic laws and attitudes. It is also powering the genocide in Gaza, the climate crisis, and racist ideologies like the Great Replacement Theory.

Showing Up for Racial Justice and Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice are partnering to help congregations respond to this moment and lead efforts for change in their communities. Through this 9-month program, congregations will gain an understanding of Christian Nationalism’s relationship to poverty and racism and how these are manifesting in their communities. Congregations will be equipped to engage in ministries to address poverty, racism, and Christian Nationalism and live out the gospel call for justice and abundant life for all people.

The deadline to apply to be a part of the upcoming cohort is June 1, 2026.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSck8MISFWt4E8FZUVYn451mUb7ds8wldwW0I59AUULFlpoTgA/viewform

05/26/2026

This spring, local leaders in Vermont, Alabama, Kansas and Illinois are preparing for a summer Season of Survival Revivals with the Kairos Center. From New England to the Heartland to the Deep South, communities are coming together to understand their shared needs, lay claim to their collective rights, and get organized for the long haul.

“This will not be a ‘one-and-done’ process,” explains Rev. Carolyn Foster of Greater Birmingham Ministries. “We are taking this revival to the people where they gather and we are organizing to break our isolation, to reach people who need mutual aid, but aren’t connected to organization or movement. We want to bring people into community with one another…and work towards transformative change.”

Revivals have a long history in this country. In the 19th century, tent revivals were used to spread abolitionism and grow the movement to end slavery. In the 20th century, revivals brought Black and white tenant farmers together to organize for their rights. Drawing on faith and cultural traditions to build politicized communities, revivals have centered ordinary people—especially poor and low-income people—as knowledge holders, not just recipients of services. Today’s Survival Revivals apply this same form to the conditions people are enduring right now.

Each Survival Revivals site embodies a distinct history and set of current conditions shaped by poverty, disinvestment, environmental injustice, housing insecurity, food insecurity, family separation, police violence, detention, incarceration, and much more. But, they have also produced grounded community identity, strong relationships, and deep insights that too often go unheard.

As Lydia Graves, an art teacher from Birmingham describes, “The revivals will be spaces where people can speak honestly about what survival looks like in their neighborhood, where their experiences are treated as collective knowledge, not isolated struggle, and where long-term demands and shared leadership can be formed.”

These pictures offer a glimpse of the emergent hope we’ve seen this spring, the beginnings of much more to come this summer and beyond.

To stay in the loop for the , follow:
Greater Birmingham Ministries
Baptist Church of the Covenant
The Alton Mission
Loud Light
WyCo Mutual Aid
Kansas Interfaith Action
First Presbyterian Church of Springfield, Illinois
Vermont Workers' Center
Northeast Kingdom Organizing
Kingdom United Resilience & Recovery
Migrant Justice / Justicia Migrante

05/18/2026

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the voting power of millions of Black Americans, suffered a monumental loss at the hands of the Supreme Court this month. While the decision directly affects Black and brown voters, its impacts will radiate out, disproportionately impacting poor and low income voters nationwide. This issue needs national attention and immediate action. That’s why we broke down some of what you need to know about the case in our issue of This Kairos Moment this week. Read, share, and subscribe to This Kairos Moment.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the voting power of millions of Black Americans, suffered a monumental loss at the hands of the Supreme Court this month. While the decision directly affects Black and brown voters, its impacts will radiate out, disproportionately impacting poor and low income vote...

05/14/2026

"There's this Palestinian, homeless, undocumented, Jewish leader who travels around the countryside setting up free healthcare clinics, healing the sick, and never charging a l***r a copay. That's the Jesus I follow."
—Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

05/12/2026

Amid rising costs of living and growing economic inequality, more than half of the country struggles daily to meet our needs. Misplaced national priorities are starving local and state budgets, forcing more and more communities to fend for themselves.

Over the past year, the Kairos Center has been organizing with communities that are responding to these conditions in rural counties, small towns and medium sized cities. As they are compelled to take action around housing and food insecurity, healthcare cuts, climate disasters, attacks on immigrants, police violence and democratic decline, we are working together to build more resilient networks locally and across the country that are part of a national movement for fundamental change.

In April, we brought delegations from five regions together to prepare for a “Season of Survival Revivals” this summer. Through art, song, study and action, and powered by our diverse histories and traditions, we began to envision an organizing model that could meet our daily needs, withstand this moment and inspire our political imaginations. More than a series of events, the Survival Revivals will lay claim to the society we deserve and know is possible.

PC: Steve Pavey, 1221 Photography

05/11/2026

While the government spends nearly $1 trillion annually on war-making, costs of things that people need like food and healthcare are rising. Join us for Care, Not Warfare - a political education webinar tomorrow:

Care, Not Warfare
Thursday, May 7, 2026
4:30–6:30pm PT / 5:30–7:30pm MT
6:30–8:30pm CT / 7:30–9:30pm ET

RSVP: in the comments

Hear from human rights defenders, anti-war activists, policy experts, faith leaders, climate activists, labor leaders, and others who will help us understand how to shift from an economy and democracy built around warfare to one built on care.

Co-sponsored by Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, MADRE, and The Rising Majority. Endorsed by About Face: Veterans Against the War, Action Center on Race and the Economy, CODEPINK: Women For Peace, The Costs of War, Equity And Transformation, Jewish Voice for Peace, Kairos Center, National Nurses United, NIAC, Dissenters, National Priorities Project, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Women Cross DMZ, Charity and Security Network, Feminist Peace Initiative, May Day Strong, National Organization for Women, and The Smile Trust.

05/10/2026

The story of Jesus’ death and resurrection is the story of the state ex*****on of an insurrectionist, which ends in the triumph of God over the powers of death and destruction. This story of resurrection recalls the history of the Israelite people in the exodus and other passages of liberation and salvation. In the season of “The Days of Liberation”, we celebrate the many examples when the liberation of the oppressed has triumphed over forces of evil. This time celebrates the many ways that the poor today and throughout history have been victorious over the forces of oppression and death.