Praying with Our Feet
- Christian Living
- Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
- Publisher: Brazos Press (Baker Publishing Group)
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
"Readers looking for ways to get involved in their communities will find plenty to motivate them in Krinks's personal testament."--Publishers WeeklyAt age twenty, Lindsey Krinks thought she had her life figured out. But a devastating injury and an unexpected encounter with a homeless organizing group disrupted her plans and opened her eyes to the immense suffering and injustice around her. Awakened to a fierce pursuit of justice and a faith that called her to "pray with her feet," Krinks plunged into the underside of American society, where she found both staggering loss and astounding love. As a street chaplain, activist, and cofounder of Open Table Nashville, Krinks takes us on an unforgettable spiritual journey to tent cities, alleys, slums, and the front lines of movements for justice. Praying with Our Feet challenges preconceptions about people who live on the streets, calling us to move from charity to justice and to get our hands dirty in the struggle for a better world. Readers who are dismayed by the world's suffering but don't know where to start will find much inspiration in this intimate and moving book. Includes end-of-book discussion questions for each chapter.
Endorsements (6)
“Krinks reminds us time and again that one life does make a difference—be it our own or another’s—and this is both gift and grace. Our world desperately needs not only our caring but also our actions to heal and to continue to point us to the new heaven and new earth where justice and love find their home. This is a powerful book of stories that will keep you reading.”
“Praying with one’s feet changes everything—not only religion and spirituality but also lives and communities, and even words spoken or written. Lindsey Krinks takes her readers on a journey in which this insight deepens on every page. She brings together the personal and the political, with a hint toward economic possibilities.”
“Activist, theologian, and sister in the struggle Lindsey Krinks weaves together stories from her upbringing with stories of those left out of the prosperity God intends for all. With great sensitivity and honesty, she calls people to fix their gaze on the stark reality of poverty and homelessness, and witnesses to how poor and homeless leaders and people of faith and conscience endeavor to do something about it. I am familiar with many of the people’s stories lifted up by Krinks and thank her for treating the lives and wounds of so many of God’s people as serious and sacred, and for recognizing them as moral and political agents of change.”
“Praying with Our Feet reminds us that theology is meant to be lived out, not sequestered in the ivory towers of academia. This book shines a light on the people who need our solidarity more now than ever. Praise for Lindsey Krinks for writing such a timely read for all of us.”
“I wholeheartedly say amen to Praying with Our Feet. The continued growth of poverty and homelessness in the richest country in the world is a moral failing and a social sin. Those who have decided to devote their lives to the faithful and who struggle to uplift all of God’s children, from ‘the least of these’ to ‘all of these,’ need to be heard. The story Krinks tells in her book is one of an important and needed ministry of work with the poor and homeless. It is a story among many other untold stories of unsung saints.”
“For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.”
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