Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, director of the Kairos Center and Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign in the United States, tackles the question: How do we move from a dysfunctional world to a world free of nuclear weapons? In her presentation, Liz talks about the Poor People’s Campaign and how the pillars of racism, poverty, the destruction of the Earth and militarism are held together by a false narrative of religious nationalism. The work of the Poor People’s Campaign finds its roots in the work done over half a century ago by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King in active nonviolence in a style known as “moral fusion direct action.” “We're not just cursing the darkness, we're not just saying all the things that are wrong, but we're holding out the possibility that it doesn't have to be this way, that a different way of organizing society is possible and that global cooperation is actually the moral way to go.”
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.