A Soulful Revolution

Interview: A Soulful Revolution Podcast

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Interview: A Soulful Revolution Podcast
We Pray Freedom: Ritual, Solidarity, and the Soul of Revolution
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis & Dr. Charon Hribar on the deliciousness of solidarity
November 20, 2025

“In our seventh episode of the season, we sit down with Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Dr. Charon Hribar to explore the decades-long lineage behind their new book, We Pray Freedom: Liturgies & Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor.

We Pray Freedom is rooted in an active, justice-building understanding of prayer and ritual—embodied practices that sustain, empower, and transform.

“Drawn from the struggles and wisdom of poor and dispossessed communities, these liturgies reclaim the sacred as collective action for a world where all can thrive. In a society steeped in the rituals of empire, these prayers insist that the leadership, dignity, and traditions of the poor are not only holy—they are essential to building a just and life-affirming future.” – https://weprayfreedom.org/about/

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Interview: Gravity Commons Podcast

Interview: Gravity Commons Podcast

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Interview: Gravity Commons Podcast
Liz Theoharis & Charon Hribar: Liturgies and Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor
October 28, 2025

We talked with Liz Theoharis and Charon Hribar about how prayers, rituals, and liturgies help to sustain movements for social change. Their book is full of prayers, resources, and stories that grew out of communities committed to abolishing poverty.

Dr. Charon Hribar (Cha-Ron Reebar) is a visionary leader, musician, and scholar. She serves as the Director of Cultural Strategies for the Kairos Center and Co-Director of Theomusicology and Movement Arts for the Poor People’s Campaign. With over two decades of experience, she empowers leaders and integrates rituals and arts into organizing efforts.

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Interview: Straight White American Jesus Podcast

Interview: Straight White American Jesus Podcast

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Interview: Straight White American Jesus Podcast
Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: The Rituals of Freedom
October 27, 2025

Brad welcomes Liz Theoharis and Charon Hribar, editors of We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals from The Freedom Church of the Poor. Both guests are key leaders in the faith-based anti-poverty movement and longtime organizers with the Poor People’s Campaign. Together, they discuss how liturgy and ritual can be reclaimed as acts of collective resistance, solidarity, and hope among the poor and dispossessed.

The conversation weaves through Liz and Charon’s personal journeys—Liz’s formation in faith-driven social justice work and Charon’s discovery of liberation theology growing up in a steel town—and traces how decades of grassroots organizing through the Kairos Center inspired this new book. They explore how faith traditions, particularly Christianity, can serve as public, justice-oriented practice rather than private belief, what it means to “pray with your feet,” and how ritual itself can be political.

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Interview: This is Not Church Podcast
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You Can’t Worship God and Money

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Theological Abominations in Trump’s America

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By Liz Theoharis
September 9, 2025

It was a moment somewhat like this, 30 years ago, that turned me into a biblical scholar. In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, political and religious leaders quoted scripture to justify shutting down food programs and kicking mothers and their babies off public assistance. Those leaders, many of them self-described Christians, chose to ignore the majority of passages in the Bible that preached “good news” to the poor and promised freedom to those captive to injustice and oppression.

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In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer
Interview: A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast
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How prayer, ritual and culture are sustaining the movement for liberation in times of crisis

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Liturgies of liberation offer “a shared moral vision for a better world.”

Faith & Leadership
By Liz Theoharis & Charon Hribar
July 22, 2025

In a world consumed by political polarization, economic crises and rising violence, there is a growing hunger for spiritual practices that do not retreat from reality but help us face it with courage, clarity and collective action. In this moment, the resurgence of ritual, prayer and cultural arts within social movements offers more than comfort and belonging; it provides strategy, sustenance and a shared moral vision for a better world.

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Winning Hearts and Minds

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The Struggle to Thrive and Not Just Barely Survive in Trump’s America

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By Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back

July 20, 2025

Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of 3,000 people. By the late 1990s, that number had dwindled to seven. At the turn of the millennium, Jody Silliker, a young minister fresh out of seminary, was sent to shutter the downtown church, a mile from the state legislature in Harrisburg.

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The War on Trans People

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And What It Means in the Age of Trump

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By Aaron Scott, Liz Theoharis and Moses Hernandez McGavin
June 3, 2025

This year, Pride Month arrives at an especially dire moment for the LGBTQ+ community. Under the second Trump administration, homophobic vitriol and violence are on the rise. On Elon Musk’s X platform, a “deepfake” video of Donald Trump canceling Pride Month has gone viral.

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