By The Rev. Sarah Monroe, Chaplains on the Harbor Gustavo Gutierrez, famed as the founder of liberation theology, believed that all theology must begin with praxis.[1] That is, theology should only be done from the ground up, starting from the experience of the poor. We cannot talk about God, truly, unless we listen to the voices of the poor and we cannot do theology except from the context of their experience. I work in a specific context. I work in the rural United States, in Grays Harbor County in Washington State, where deindustrialization has fueled the rise of incarceration and
