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Praying with Our Feet
"Readers looking for ways to get involved in their communities will find plenty to motivate them in Krinks's personal testament."
-- Publishers Weekly
At 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.
-- Publishers Weekly
At 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.
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2021
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February 21, 2021
A memoir of a journey towards serving god by serving the homeless population. Krinks goes into great detail about the basics of social movements, church politics, homeless politics, the lives of those who find themselves homeless, and the difficulty of finding a sustainable career in the human services fields in the where low pay, low status, and burnout are endemic. That was fascinating, but what was even more fascinating was her religious journey and the way she framed social justice in explicit Christian terms (a perspective not often in popular discourse in the USA). The narrative structure was a bit scattershot and staccato, but I really liked learning about her, her calling, her work, and her spiritual development.
**Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
**Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
February 1, 2021
Praying With Our Feet by Lindsey Krinks is an eye-opening, impassioned memoir that recounts the author's call to service. This memoir documents Krinks' journey into activism and determining her purpose, helping homeless community members in Nashville, Tennessee. I don't necessarily identify as Christian because of the corruption and hypocrisy of many churches, but the description of this book really intrigued me as I adore the philosophy of Christian Civil Rights activists like John Lewis. Unfortunately many Christian churches focus more on comfort than real action, which would improve conditions for those in need in their communities.
Krinks has been inspired by the Catholic Worker Movement, which focuses on serving those in need and fighting injustice. Despite there being massive shortages of affordable housing available in many cities, homelessness has often been criminalized, with laws against trespassing, etc. in order to keep up appearances. Additionally, police are often ordered to retaliate against the homeless by destroying tents and encampments.
I really enjoyed the perspective of this book and focus on service, but also addressing the core of the issues and implementing change/programs at the level of local government. The recent Black Lives Matter movement has helped illuminate the idea of diverting some of the funding from police forces to social services to more greatly benefit the community. Krinks has such a kind, beautiful way of connecting to others which is reflected throughout Praying With Our Feet.
I listened to the audiobook and the narration was fine and seemed to match how I imagined the author. I did speed up the recording 1.5x for best listening. I highly recommend this memoir for anyone interested in social justice and implementing real change that benefits our communities.
Thank you Brazos Press / RB Media and NetGalley for providing this audiobook and ebook ARC.
Krinks has been inspired by the Catholic Worker Movement, which focuses on serving those in need and fighting injustice. Despite there being massive shortages of affordable housing available in many cities, homelessness has often been criminalized, with laws against trespassing, etc. in order to keep up appearances. Additionally, police are often ordered to retaliate against the homeless by destroying tents and encampments.
I really enjoyed the perspective of this book and focus on service, but also addressing the core of the issues and implementing change/programs at the level of local government. The recent Black Lives Matter movement has helped illuminate the idea of diverting some of the funding from police forces to social services to more greatly benefit the community. Krinks has such a kind, beautiful way of connecting to others which is reflected throughout Praying With Our Feet.
I listened to the audiobook and the narration was fine and seemed to match how I imagined the author. I did speed up the recording 1.5x for best listening. I highly recommend this memoir for anyone interested in social justice and implementing real change that benefits our communities.
Thank you Brazos Press / RB Media and NetGalley for providing this audiobook and ebook ARC.
February 7, 2021
I'm quite surprised at how much I loved "Praying with Our Feet." For starters, I LOVED listening to Emily Ellet. She did a remarkable job narrating the story of Lindsey Krinks' -- and her tireless work to help advocate for the homeless. This memoir was fast-paced and very well-written by Krinks. And Ellet just added to my desire to devour the content in only 3-4 hours.
Because I'm not very religious, I thought this book (and all of the Bible references) might be off-putting. But it worked. And I'm glad I was open-minded enough to listen!
I learned SO MUCH more about our homeless population and why our country's systems are vastly inadequate. People are not allowed to sleep in parks and tent cities, but they don't have the means to pay for short-term housing--so they're stuck in the middle. Where are they supposed to sleep? Most homeless people are not in their predicament by choice. And it's due to caring outreach programs developed by Krinks and others who give this community a voice.
Special thanks to ChristianAudio for the opportunity to listen to the audiobook, via NetGalley, in exchange for my honest review.
Because I'm not very religious, I thought this book (and all of the Bible references) might be off-putting. But it worked. And I'm glad I was open-minded enough to listen!
I learned SO MUCH more about our homeless population and why our country's systems are vastly inadequate. People are not allowed to sleep in parks and tent cities, but they don't have the means to pay for short-term housing--so they're stuck in the middle. Where are they supposed to sleep? Most homeless people are not in their predicament by choice. And it's due to caring outreach programs developed by Krinks and others who give this community a voice.
Special thanks to ChristianAudio for the opportunity to listen to the audiobook, via NetGalley, in exchange for my honest review.
January 6, 2021
This book told a moving story of a young activist and street chaplain whose work in homeless advocacy took her to the underside of Nashville, where she healed others and was healed in turn by her friends on the streets. With an emphasis on liberation, justice, and mutuality, Krinks artfully conveyed the importance of embodying the prayers we have for the poor and the sick. Let us not pray with only empty words. Let us pray with our lives. Let us pray with our feet.
I’m Praying With Our Feet, Krinks teaches us this: Our liberation is bound up with the “other,” and in that realization we will surely be transformed.
I’m Praying With Our Feet, Krinks teaches us this: Our liberation is bound up with the “other,” and in that realization we will surely be transformed.
July 8, 2021
I have loved witnessing a little of Lindsey’s ministry in Nashville but hearing the why behind why she does it as well as the pain she has endured is very inspiring. I think everyone who believes in the Gospel of Jesus should read this.
May 19, 2021
This was a great book to use for a small group. I read it with friends from church and it generated lots of discussion every week.
June 5, 2021
Read this with a group and it challenged us and led to some good conversation.
August 26, 2022
A wonderful writer and storyteller with truth found in passion and lived experience. This is a story of how the church is transforming through radical honesty to the world. As Rev. Lindsey Krinks maps out, the call is to be responsible to, or responsible for, and this book makes a passionate argument for that shift in our minds.
January 30, 2021
“What would happen if we defied them? What would happen if we didn’t?” Early in Lindsey Krinks’ magnificent story Praying with our Feet, young Lindsey and a group of fellow college students had planned a protest to try to influence the outgoing mayor of Nashville to fulfill his promise to build more affordable housing. Even though this protest was relatively small, the mayor's office pressured the administration of the college they went to to get them to call off the march. The police called and tried to intimidate them because they didn’t know they needed a permit.
What would happen if we defied them? Krinks’ story weaves masterfully the threads of what happens when we defy the powers of the system that value property over people. What happens when we defy the idea that some lives are expendable? What happens if we defy the idea that people are only worth what they produce? What happens if we defy the idea that homelessness can’t be helped? Along the way, Krinks discovers herself and her calling, and if you read all of the beautiful prose she weaves along the way, you too might discover something you didn’t even know was missing, and you may reclaim an essential part of your humanity that you were taught to believe didn’t really matter.
Krinks shines a light on the underside of the city and along the way, you’ll discover the shame of homelessness lies not with the unhoused people you’ll meet in this book, but with us for allowing a system that makes homelessness possible.
Come along and let your soul be lit on fire for justice and equity and discover what it really means to be human.
What would happen if we defied them? Krinks’ story weaves masterfully the threads of what happens when we defy the powers of the system that value property over people. What happens when we defy the idea that some lives are expendable? What happens if we defy the idea that people are only worth what they produce? What happens if we defy the idea that homelessness can’t be helped? Along the way, Krinks discovers herself and her calling, and if you read all of the beautiful prose she weaves along the way, you too might discover something you didn’t even know was missing, and you may reclaim an essential part of your humanity that you were taught to believe didn’t really matter.
Krinks shines a light on the underside of the city and along the way, you’ll discover the shame of homelessness lies not with the unhoused people you’ll meet in this book, but with us for allowing a system that makes homelessness possible.
Come along and let your soul be lit on fire for justice and equity and discover what it really means to be human.
April 1, 2021
I read this book with my church book club here in Nashville. With that setting, the book was very cool to read — recognizing the places, events, and political figures. I was very moved by Lindsey’s call to action as far as the homeless population here in Nashville. I have worked with those experiencing homelessness (before the pandemic), but the book helped me to be a better human: more thoughtful, more empathetic.
I did have one particular issue with the text: the referral to a disliked Asian character as “Mrs. Chang”— not the name of the person, but a name given by the author (“let’s just call her ‘Mrs. Chang’”). I was confused by this choice to racialize a character unnecessarily, especially in a book that is otherwise pretty woke about cultural and racial sensitivity.
I did have one particular issue with the text: the referral to a disliked Asian character as “Mrs. Chang”— not the name of the person, but a name given by the author (“let’s just call her ‘Mrs. Chang’”). I was confused by this choice to racialize a character unnecessarily, especially in a book that is otherwise pretty woke about cultural and racial sensitivity.
March 14, 2021
When listening to an audiobook, the narrator sets the tone of the entire production. It's hard to separate the two because they become one and the same. There have been many instances where I have had to stop listening to an audiobook because while the story might have been interesting, the narrator made the experience unbearable. As I listened to Praying with Our Feet, I struggled to decide whether or not to set the book down. Though she was good at times, the narrator was melancholic and far too dramatic and slow for this kind of memoir. Nevertheless, I want to write a review critiquing the book, so I'm going to set aside my negative remarks about the narrator and focus on its contents...
Praying with Our Feet is set in Nashville, Tennessee, where the author, Lindsey Krinks, works on the streets to provide aid to the homeless and educate the community about the injustices being done around them. Taking readers on a journey, Lindsey relays how she became an activist and the events that have taken place from her college years to today. The truth is hard to swallow, and Lindsey makes sure not to sugar-coat the harsh realities of homelessness, bringing care and humanity into a situation that is so readily mocked or ignored. It's time for the eyes of believers and non-believers alike to be reminded of their duty to love and serve one another, and Praying with Our Feet might be the ignition someone needs to take that step and make a difference.
“When people feel like they matter, like they belong, something opens in them. Some of the walls they’ve been constructing to protect themselves begin to fall away.” ~ Lindsey Krinks
Lindsey Krinks' determination to help give a voice to those who are often silenced was encouraging. I remember walking through London's streets and watching as people ignored the homeless who sat at every corner or station! It saddened me to see how these people had been downgraded to invisible or, worse, thought of as the scum of the city... We are all human and have the responsibility to treat everyone else as such! Praying with Our Feet reminded me that we should not sit in silence in the face of injustice nor ignore the cry for help when it comes!
“When you pray for patience, God will often give you difficult and trying circumstances so that you are forced to learn patience. Likewise, in order to become courageous, you must go through some frightening and challenging things... Courage is not experienced in your heart until you’ve faced fear.” ~ Lindsey Krinks
I enjoyed going through Lindsey Krinks' journey. She is passionate, and her heart shone through the pages of this book. However, I frequently disagreed with her doctrine and often questioned where her true beliefs lie. Lindsey calls herself a Christian but also adopts many philosophies from other religions and movements... Like with most non-fiction books, you have to take everything with a pinch of salt. I appreciate that Lindsey used this memoir to share her story while not being overly political. Praying with Our Feet is the story of a woman who has dedicated her life to stand for what she believes in, and I admire Lindsey's tenacity to move people through the stories of those who impacted her heart. I pray that those who read or listen to this book start to have these important conversations and have their eyes opened to the need right in front of them!
"We get attached because that’s what humans do. We form relationships of respect, mutuality, and trust. We have an impact on others and they have an impact on us. The second we write someone off as only a client, consumer, or case to be managed, we lose a little bit of our humanity too. We all have something to learn from one another.” ~ Lindsey Krinks
Praying with Our Feet is set in Nashville, Tennessee, where the author, Lindsey Krinks, works on the streets to provide aid to the homeless and educate the community about the injustices being done around them. Taking readers on a journey, Lindsey relays how she became an activist and the events that have taken place from her college years to today. The truth is hard to swallow, and Lindsey makes sure not to sugar-coat the harsh realities of homelessness, bringing care and humanity into a situation that is so readily mocked or ignored. It's time for the eyes of believers and non-believers alike to be reminded of their duty to love and serve one another, and Praying with Our Feet might be the ignition someone needs to take that step and make a difference.
“When people feel like they matter, like they belong, something opens in them. Some of the walls they’ve been constructing to protect themselves begin to fall away.” ~ Lindsey Krinks
Lindsey Krinks' determination to help give a voice to those who are often silenced was encouraging. I remember walking through London's streets and watching as people ignored the homeless who sat at every corner or station! It saddened me to see how these people had been downgraded to invisible or, worse, thought of as the scum of the city... We are all human and have the responsibility to treat everyone else as such! Praying with Our Feet reminded me that we should not sit in silence in the face of injustice nor ignore the cry for help when it comes!
“When you pray for patience, God will often give you difficult and trying circumstances so that you are forced to learn patience. Likewise, in order to become courageous, you must go through some frightening and challenging things... Courage is not experienced in your heart until you’ve faced fear.” ~ Lindsey Krinks
I enjoyed going through Lindsey Krinks' journey. She is passionate, and her heart shone through the pages of this book. However, I frequently disagreed with her doctrine and often questioned where her true beliefs lie. Lindsey calls herself a Christian but also adopts many philosophies from other religions and movements... Like with most non-fiction books, you have to take everything with a pinch of salt. I appreciate that Lindsey used this memoir to share her story while not being overly political. Praying with Our Feet is the story of a woman who has dedicated her life to stand for what she believes in, and I admire Lindsey's tenacity to move people through the stories of those who impacted her heart. I pray that those who read or listen to this book start to have these important conversations and have their eyes opened to the need right in front of them!
"We get attached because that’s what humans do. We form relationships of respect, mutuality, and trust. We have an impact on others and they have an impact on us. The second we write someone off as only a client, consumer, or case to be managed, we lose a little bit of our humanity too. We all have something to learn from one another.” ~ Lindsey Krinks
May 8, 2023
3.5 ⭐️
Lindsey has a HUGE heart and gift for helping houseless people. She has taken enormous steps of faith—bigger than most of us will ever take—to serve some of those most in need. I was inspired by her courage and drive, by the way she loved others with dignity and humility.
I struggled with this book. I got the impression that Lindsey preferred to fight against authority rather than with it. And I do think there is a difference. I could not get on board with the pervading anarchist theme.
She has a lot of negative things to say about churches. She is follower of Jesus (and she’s free to criticize) but in her frustration, I think she overlooks a lot of good that local churches DO accomplish, just maybe outside her particular area of outreach. She’s even more critical of anyone in a position of wealth or power—and I get it—and yet at one point, she is able to secure a plot of land for tents thanks to a generous male leader in a local church…who was a wealthy landowner. I could have done with less overgeneralization.
I felt like this could have been a much better (different?) book had she written it 10 or 15 years down the road. The reader can deeply feel Lindsey’s own overwhelming emotions and her struggle to find balance and direction. I’m sure that was intentional, but by the end, I still felt disoriented.
Those points aside, I really do think Lindsey has been given a heart for people on the streets. She’s trying hard to make a difference, and indeed she has. It feels almost wrong to rate a book like this, because you know she has poured so much heart and soul into her work. I applaud her commitment to service! I would love to read a follow-up book, if she decides to write another in a decade or two!
Lindsey has a HUGE heart and gift for helping houseless people. She has taken enormous steps of faith—bigger than most of us will ever take—to serve some of those most in need. I was inspired by her courage and drive, by the way she loved others with dignity and humility.
I struggled with this book. I got the impression that Lindsey preferred to fight against authority rather than with it. And I do think there is a difference. I could not get on board with the pervading anarchist theme.
She has a lot of negative things to say about churches. She is follower of Jesus (and she’s free to criticize) but in her frustration, I think she overlooks a lot of good that local churches DO accomplish, just maybe outside her particular area of outreach. She’s even more critical of anyone in a position of wealth or power—and I get it—and yet at one point, she is able to secure a plot of land for tents thanks to a generous male leader in a local church…who was a wealthy landowner. I could have done with less overgeneralization.
I felt like this could have been a much better (different?) book had she written it 10 or 15 years down the road. The reader can deeply feel Lindsey’s own overwhelming emotions and her struggle to find balance and direction. I’m sure that was intentional, but by the end, I still felt disoriented.
Those points aside, I really do think Lindsey has been given a heart for people on the streets. She’s trying hard to make a difference, and indeed she has. It feels almost wrong to rate a book like this, because you know she has poured so much heart and soul into her work. I applaud her commitment to service! I would love to read a follow-up book, if she decides to write another in a decade or two!
January 29, 2021
Praying with Our Feet is a gift that I will be giving all of my friends in 2021. This book of soulful wisdom invited me to see my city and my faith through eyes of compassion and justice (Gregory Boyle meets Ibram X. Kendi). I found a world of imagination and courage open inside me. Each story that Krinks tells brings the reader closer to the heart of faith, the heart of justice, until I feel my own heart beating again. The stories told are surprising, heart-wrenching, and real, in the author's voice that attends to the nitty, gritty soulful nature of being in relationships across lines of poverty and systemic injustice. This is the book of awakening and radical (rooted) faith that I wish I had read ten years ago. I wept after reading the first chapter, realizing how long it has been in the pandemic since I felt brushed by the fire of justice and love of God and neighbors on the streets. I highly recommend this read as a deepening in Christian faith and movements for justice. The author's own journey holds up a mirror, and sheds light for all seeking meaning, purpose, calling, and community, shaped by freedom fighters and practitioners of the ages. A gift for activists, young and old. I'm going to carry these sacred stories for a long time. This book will accompany you, and rouse you awake.
February 18, 2021
In writing "Praying with our Feet," Lindsey Krinks has offered readers the chance to listen in on her development from concerned but naive Christian college student to passionate activist to street chaplain for the unhoused in Nashville. This is no "how to" manual for advancing systemic change; neither is it simply a story about a woman who learns how to love her neighbors who live in the underpasses. Krinks is a skilled storyteller, for sure. But the attentive reader will hear in her stories the intellectual and spiritual grounding of her developing theology of care. And the love with which she tells the stories of those she ministers alongside, housed and unhoused, draws open, curious readers to wonder how they, themselves, are being called to bear witness and work for change.
Books about faith-fueled activism can feel like heroic epics or bible study manuals. I look forward to sharing "Praying with our Feet" with the people I work with, knowing that they'll be challenged to respond.
Thanks to NetGalley and Brazos Press for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Books about faith-fueled activism can feel like heroic epics or bible study manuals. I look forward to sharing "Praying with our Feet" with the people I work with, knowing that they'll be challenged to respond.
Thanks to NetGalley and Brazos Press for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
May 17, 2021
This is a memoir, non-fiction (which is a reason why I picked this book). It was interesting to learn something about the homeless community. How they live and what do they struggle with.
I didn't mind as well the bible references in the book although I myself am not so keen on religion.
The book is written well from my point view, although I listened to the audiobook.
I didn't even know there are so many homeless people in Tennessee. What I missed in the book was deeper connection with the people who appeared in the story. It was interesting to learn that Lindsey lived with the other homeless people in the tent camp as well how she did her first appearance in public, how she became Street Chaplaincy Coordinator for Open Table Nashville.
Maybe my rating would be higher if the memoir goes a bit deeper into the lives of homeless people. I know this was Lindsey's memoir and we were supposed to learn mainly about her. But still I felt like I missed some more info about the people who died. She just said it like a simple fact, like they were not her friends, which was confusing.
Thank you anyway netgalley for a chance to listen to this audiobook.
I didn't mind as well the bible references in the book although I myself am not so keen on religion.
The book is written well from my point view, although I listened to the audiobook.
I didn't even know there are so many homeless people in Tennessee. What I missed in the book was deeper connection with the people who appeared in the story. It was interesting to learn that Lindsey lived with the other homeless people in the tent camp as well how she did her first appearance in public, how she became Street Chaplaincy Coordinator for Open Table Nashville.
Maybe my rating would be higher if the memoir goes a bit deeper into the lives of homeless people. I know this was Lindsey's memoir and we were supposed to learn mainly about her. But still I felt like I missed some more info about the people who died. She just said it like a simple fact, like they were not her friends, which was confusing.
Thank you anyway netgalley for a chance to listen to this audiobook.
February 1, 2021
This book isn't just the story of how one person found her calling and worked to make herself an instrument of justice. This is the story of how people, together, can change the world.
Anyone who has met Lindsey Krinks knows that she embodies the fierce compassion that any activist/social justice worker needs to survive and thrive while working with people whom the rest of the world refuses to even see. And yet time and again throughout Praying with Our Feet, she places herself in the background as she tells riveting stories of the people she's known over the last ten years: From social justice icons to men and women whose names would otherwise be lost on the banks of the Cumberland River. This is the story of someone finding her own liberation through the people she chooses to walk alongside.
For anyone who needs to be reinvigorated with hope that a small group of people can change the world, this book is a must-read. It is both inspiring and challenging. Like any good writing, it comforts the afflicted... and afflicts the comfortable.
Anyone who has met Lindsey Krinks knows that she embodies the fierce compassion that any activist/social justice worker needs to survive and thrive while working with people whom the rest of the world refuses to even see. And yet time and again throughout Praying with Our Feet, she places herself in the background as she tells riveting stories of the people she's known over the last ten years: From social justice icons to men and women whose names would otherwise be lost on the banks of the Cumberland River. This is the story of someone finding her own liberation through the people she chooses to walk alongside.
For anyone who needs to be reinvigorated with hope that a small group of people can change the world, this book is a must-read. It is both inspiring and challenging. Like any good writing, it comforts the afflicted... and afflicts the comfortable.
February 1, 2021
Praying with Our Feet is a mission-themed memoir from debut author Lindsay Krinks, a Nashville-based street chaplain. In it, Krinks explores often under-examined questions in Christianity, such as charity-oriented love verses justice-oriented, the various contributing factors to homelessness and opposition to housing options, and individual’s responsibility to the course of fairness on a macro scale. Krinks shares her personal journey with immersive prose, balancing action and reflection in a way that invites the reader to hand over trust and feel the vulnerability of every person in the book. From a Christian readers’ perspective, this book isn’t only an introspective deep dive of the real-life lessons of Jesus, it’s a call to action and a revelation of the unexpected ways God offers His love on the streets of our cities.
March 13, 2021
An interesting read, as you grow along with the writer. Krink's is concerned with homelessness and the culture prejudices that perpetuate this situation. She is overwhelmed and brings the reader along with her, as she grows in her response. I really appreciated the storyline that carried us along with her and her realizations, rather then telling us what would happen from the beginning. I also really appreciated the human stories that she included.
"while I knew I couldn't give him the keys to a new home, I could be kind. I could connect, affirm his humanity, exchange names..."
"Bu I was learning that whenever I had extra food and coats, I needed to open my hands a little wider to my neighbour. I was learning that every small act of kindness mattered."
She challenges us to do what we can.
"while I knew I couldn't give him the keys to a new home, I could be kind. I could connect, affirm his humanity, exchange names..."
"Bu I was learning that whenever I had extra food and coats, I needed to open my hands a little wider to my neighbour. I was learning that every small act of kindness mattered."
She challenges us to do what we can.
March 7, 2022
It has come to my attention that Krinks, in the foreword of the book, both misgendered one of the activists whose work she lauded, and also did not obtain permission from the organization's founder to include the org, which she uses as a foundation of the book. This was extremely disappointing for me to learn as it does not align with the issues of justice and equity that Krinks so eloquently writes about. I feel very conflicted about learning this after loving the beauty of the book. If we are to pray with our feet, we must be willing to take responsibility and make tangible amends when we fall short in upholding the values we teach, preach, and make money from.
February 3, 2021
Extremely relevant and timely. It's a great read! An important read. Eye opening to what's going on today in the streets, and the world around us. I found it very moving as well as inspirational! Having been involved as a volunteer with Open Table myself, I can say that I have witnessed Lindsey's passion firsthand, and it certainly shines through in her depiction of the events in this book. I highly recommend it to everyone!
February 11, 2021
This book is so important- I understand further the statement of praying with your feet. Lindsey describes perfectly her life’s vocation and it’s evolution and how it continues to create waves of impact in our world today.
Read for a challenge to your own thinking and also as a motivation and insight to what makes this person fight for justice alongside and together. I am grateful she has shared with the works her journey and how we can consider differently and act bodily for just change
Read for a challenge to your own thinking and also as a motivation and insight to what makes this person fight for justice alongside and together. I am grateful she has shared with the works her journey and how we can consider differently and act bodily for just change
March 17, 2021
This is what it looks like to show up.
The author offers a powerful reminder that homelessness requires economic and social services and shouldn’t be treated as criminal.
From Nashville, Tennessee, Lindsey Krinks shares her story about the important work God has called her to which always includes “proximity and relationships”. The immense value this book provides makes it one I will need to probably reread yearly. I loved it.
The author offers a powerful reminder that homelessness requires economic and social services and shouldn’t be treated as criminal.
From Nashville, Tennessee, Lindsey Krinks shares her story about the important work God has called her to which always includes “proximity and relationships”. The immense value this book provides makes it one I will need to probably reread yearly. I loved it.
February 20, 2023
Warning: This book will set your life on fire. I read it because I'm interested in homelessness and helping people who don't have homes. This one is set in my adopted hometown, Nashville, where Lindsey Krinks is a street chaplain. Her book is inspiring, honest, and motivating. I had to read in small doses because some of the stories were so heart-rending. Praying with Our Feet is well-written, accessible, and it makes you think!
July 7, 2021
This is a wonderful book that is chalk full of stories from what people on the streets experience and have to go through. Lindsey does a great job of weaving her experience and journey into finding her calling as a street chaplain into her book as well. I highly recommend this book for people in ministry in and out of the church.
November 13, 2022
Lindsey Krinks is an inspirational person. She writes movingly about her experience among the unhoused people in Nashville. I have nothing but admiration for her. Some readers may think she is too good to be true,but having recently met her via Zoom, I find her genuinely committed to making the world a better place. Advocates everywhere can draw strength from Ms. Krinks.
February 5, 2023
Lindsey Krinks wrote this memoir of living out what it actually means to “pray with our feet.” She has done the hard work of advocating for those who are “unhoused” in the Nashville area. This is her story of the many men and women she has met, befriended and worked with to try to bring attention and justice to those living on the streets.
March 4, 2023
I admire the work that the author does for homeless people. I admire her search for justice. It’s necessary to get at the root of the problem and not just offer charity. I appreciate her telling the stories of many of the homeless people who became her friends. It helped me to see that every homeless person is worthy of love and care and each one has a unique story.
March 13, 2024
Lindsey draws a picture of both the power and the cost of sacrificial love, and reminds us all that, when we are bound up in one another's freedom, we have the powerful privilege and perhaps responsibility to advocate when and where our friends cannot. The path to peace is not without discomfort and, by necessity, upsets deeply held cultural values and norms.
February 2, 2021
Every now and then you discover a book that significantly challenges the way you see the world. This is one of those books. From cover to cover, it's filled with stories that both inspire and break your heart. It felt less like I was reading a book and more like I was investing in myself.
February 2, 2021
Such a fantastic book! I woke up to the inspiration of Lindsey’s stories each morning, while I was also challenged by her beliefs around community. It definitely made me want to rethink the world I live in and how we interact.
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