Shane Claiborne In Conspire Tent at #WGF11
Shane takes questions from a group who followed him over to the “Conspire” tent after his talk in the “Talk”
Shane takes questions from a group who followed him over to the “Conspire” tent after his talk in the “Talk”
Shane Claiborne speaks in the Talk Tent at Wild Goose Festival June 25, 2011
Shane Claiborne speaks in the “Talk Tent” at the Wild Goose Festival on June 25, 2011
This is some great writing and challenging thinking about being “hip” We must resist the Powers (of consumerism, globalism, fashion, etc) even as we recognize this as a time to move towards a more faithful embodiment of the Gospel in our 21st century imperial context. The Commodification of Counter Culture One of the challenges in doing this is the way Continue Reading
I love this. This has a lot to do with why I feel furthest from the church in America when I see Christians more apt to defend “America” from criticism than they are to uphold a particular theological dogma. (And here, I include “dogmas” that are rightfully insisted upon “basics” of the faith of the church. “The church has fallen Continue Reading
Just found this just before my bedtime tonight……started watching it….will continue on tomorrow. Sounds really good so far……I love hearing his stories Shane Claiborne – “The Gospel as a Way of Life: A Model for Urban Ministry”
Found these videos with Shane Claiborne talking to some people in a back yard or some farm or something Part 3 Part 4
When I did a Google on the phrasing of the Shane Claiborne quote, I found this post. Another good one. I’m with Shane Claiborne. Forget all the stories about how Jesus made life better – by solving a debt problem or helping someone overcome some relatively mild vice. Truth is, Jesus is totally messing up my life. How Jesus Messed Continue Reading
Just a few choice morsels from Jesus For President (p. 228) The church is a people called out of the world to embody a social alternative that the world cannot know on its own terms. Ironic that so many people in the church adopt the categories and the “realism” of the world, and become skeptics of the relevance of Jesus Continue Reading
This country is still the last best hope on earth—Barack Obama on Letterman in 2007. Things like this provide me with the distance I need from the mania of the impressive campaign of Barack Obama, and the “excitement” he has injected into the American political process. I’m impressed with his speeches, and I find myself feeling that this is what Continue Reading
This week I received my ordered copy of the DVD Simply Living: straight talk from Tony Campolo & Shane Claiborne on Simple, Just Living. I enjoyed all of the specifics of their conversations, but I was left frustrated on one score: I continue to see a lack of emphasis on the community in which this “simple, just living” takes place. Continue Reading