Always with Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor

A strong theological call for ending the abomination of systemic poverty. Jesus's words 'the poor you will always have with you' (matthew 26:11) are regularly used to suggest that ending poverty is impossible, that poverty is a result of moral failures, and that the poor themselves have no role in changing their situation. In this book, Liz Theoharis examines both the biblical text and the lived reality of the poor to show how that passage is taken out of context, distorted, and politicized to justify theories about the inevitability of inequality.