Join the Poor People’s Campaign NYS on Wednesday nights at 6:00 p.m. throughout the Lenten season to deepen your understanding of the call we have as Christians and how we can live it out in our day to day lives. The book, We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign (Theoharis, 2021) allows the voices of today’s movement leaders to read scriptures through the eyes of their personal experiences and moral values and helps us to understand what the Bible really says about justice and poverty. This series focuses specifically on Lent: a Season of Struggle and Lament.

We Cry Justice! We cry out loud! Through the plight, fight, and insight of the poor and dispossessed we come to see the injustice and the pain of the world and to discover a path forward. Biblically, Lent was modeled on Spirit driving Jesus into the wilderness to face the enormity of what his ministry to bring good news to the poor and to free the oppressed would look like. We can use this time to grieve, bear witness to the suffering, and bring us all to repentance, not in a way that we turn back but that we turn toward God.

May this time of crying out loud make us reckon with the pain perpetrated by forces of empire and allow our cries to be a piercing shout that cuts through all of the noise of injustice and indifference. Let this season be a time of preparation where we allow our righteous rage and our collective cries to lead us to a new way of being. Crying out against injustice is non-negotiable.

Cry loud! Cry loud! Now is the time to transform our minds and renew our commitment.

Register for the Lenten Series: Struggle and Lament, here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlf-mtqzkpHNCz7PCg5XOY1fnumDLT1yMB

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