Liberation Theology Archives
Our Own Wells Publishing
The Liberation Theology Archives and Our Own Wells Publishing began in 2025 with the aim of creating a space dedicated to the texts and testimonies of a generation who walked the walk.
Focusing specifically on 1960s-early 2000s liberationist Christian activism and thought, the LTA and Our Own Wells publish and present to a new generation the insights of elders and ancestors, turning typewriter and mimeographed texts into digital resources for present reflection.
You will find on this website key sections that represent different types of texts, such as the DISPATCHES of frontline journalists and witnesses, the RECOLLECTIONS of key thinkers and activists, CLIPPINGS from magazines and newspapers, EXCERPTS from longer texts and books, the GALLERY of images utilised on the website, and much more.
These represent the material life and the material production of a movement and movements made of individuals and communities under pressure. These tell and show the interpretation of decisive moments, decisions, options, pressures, and dialogues that were understood by those for and against the theology of liberation as decisive battlegrounds in the interpretation and activation of Christian faith within the second half of the 20th century.
Alexander Jordan Holmes-Brown founded the LTA in 2025. He is a youth worker, educator, restaurant server, and community activist whose lifelong passion is telling the stories and real lives of the community activists that lived the life we know today, in shorthand, as “liberation theology”. Though not a trained archivist, editor, or historian, Alex is interested to uplift, distribute, and preserve this legacy and these stories. The theme that runs through the whole website is the self-disclosing (biographical) and the history-telling (historiographical) of folks saying it how it was for them; what they really felt, what they meant, what they were trying to do in a given set of options, strategies, dilemmas, and attachments. “I never managed to write this oral style history into a thesis or a book–I don’t know if I can do that myself–but I wanted to share it anyway, these stories, these lives.”
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