Thursday, May 14, 2026

Aaron Scott, Liz Theoharis and Moses Hernandez McGavin

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Aaron Scott, a founding pastor of the Freedom Church of the Poor, is a trans justice organizer, a partner of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights & Social Justice, and the author of Bring Back Your People: Ten Ways Regular Folks Can Put a Dent in White Christian Nationalism. Liz Theoharis, a TomDispatch regular, is a theologian, ordained minister, and anti-poverty activist. Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, she is the co-author of the new book You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty and author of Always With Us? What Jesus Really Said About the Poor. Follow her on BlueSky at @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org. Moses Hernandez McGavin, a minister with the Freedom Church of the Poor, is a Catholic cultural worker, teacher, and organizer. He is on the ministry team of Church of the Common Ground, a street ministry in downtown Atlanta, and the Community Program Coordinator for Transmission Ministry Collective, an online community for transgender and nonbinary Christians.

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