You are invited on a spiritual journey
to the underside of society
and to movements for justice
where we learn to pray with our feet.
Let's walk together.
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Lindsey Krinks (MTS, Vanderbilt Divinity School) is a street chaplain, activist, and nonprofit leader who has worked for over a decade on the front lines of social justice movements. She is the cofounder of Open Table Nashville, a nationally acclaimed interfaith homeless outreach nonprofit. Krinks has served as a fellow with the New Leaders Council, a national network for millennial leaders, and regularly speaks to student, church, and community groups across the country. She was featured in Saint Cloud Hill, a documentary about Nashville's largest homeless camp in 2019 and has been featured in dozens of Nashville news stories.
Praise for Praying with Our Feet
“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.”
—Willie Baptist, activist, educator, author, and formerly homeless father
“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.”
—Joerg Rieger, distinguished professor of theology, Cal Turner Chancellor's Chair in Wesleyan Studies, and director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice, Vanderbilt University Divinity School
“I took up this book expecting a study of the integration of action and contemplation. What I was delighted to find was a superbly written story about the life-forming experiences that brought Krinks to such integration.”
—Paul Quenon, Abbey of Gethsemani; author of In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk's Memoir
“Thoughtfully crafted and powerfully told, Praying with Our Feet is a story of a movement growing from those who are homeless but not helpless coming together to demand dignity, life, and change. 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.”
—Liz Theoharis, cochair, Poor People's Campaign; codirector, Kairos: The Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary
“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. Read. Be challenged. Act.”
—Emilie M. Townes, dean and distinguished professor of womanist ethics and society, Vanderbilt University Divinity School
“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.”
—Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, founder of the Activist Theology Project
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—Lindsey
“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.”
—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel