Aaron is a leader with the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival.
Aaron, a second-generation preacher and third-generation organizer, will talk about his work organizing rural, poor people.
“[Aaron and I] became friends when I was pastoring a church in Washington State. His work and insights are inspiring, grounded and practical for our times.”
Pastor, author, organizer and poverty scholar Aaron Scott will talk about his work organizing rural, poor people Thursday, April 2, at 7 pm in the Moon Room of Dana Auditorium at Guilford College. The event is free and open to the public.
Aaron is a leader with the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival, for which North Carolina minister and 2016 Guilford honorary degree recipient William J. Barber II is co-chair, along with theologian Liz Theoharis.
“Aaron is one of the main reasons I got connected to the Poor People’s Campaign 17 years ago,” says Wess Daniels, William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies. “We became friends when I was pastoring a church in Washington State. His work and insights are inspiring, grounded and practical for our times.”
A second-generation preacher and third-generation organizer, Aaron is a trans father and a Christian who grew up in poverty. He is a co-founder of Chaplains on the Harbor, a freedom church of the poor in Grays Harbor County (Wash.).
He earned his master’s degree in Biblical Studies from Union Theological Seminary in 2009, and is a contributing author to the books We Cry Justice and Jesus Led a Poor People’s Campaign.
In addition to the talk at Guilford, which is sponsored by Friends Center, on Wednesday, April 1, at 6 pm, Aaron will be talking about his book, Bring Back Your People: Ten Ways Ordinary People can Put a Dent in Christian Nationalism (2025), at Scuppernong Books in downtown Greensboro.