With tears and laughter, Shane unveils the tragic realities of our fragile world and the incredible hope that “another world is possible.” Shane graduated from Eastern University, and did graduate work at Princeton Seminary. His adventures have been wild everything from a 10-week stint working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, to a year spent serving at the evangelical “mega-church” Willow Creek in verdant Chicago suburbs.
Recently, Shane spent 3 weeks in Baghdad with the Iraq Peace Team (a project of Voices in the Wilderness and Christian Peacemaker Teams) where he was a witness to military bombardment of Baghdad. As a member of IPT, Shane took daily trips to sites where there had been bombings, visited hospitals and famillies, and attended worship services during the war.
Shane is a founding partner of The Simple Way, a community of faith seeking to Love God, Love People, and Follow Jesus. The Simple Way has helped birth and connect grassroots Christian communities throughout the country, and has invited many people to consider the Gospel as a Way of life.
Shane serves on the Board of Directors for the Christian Community Development Association, whose pillars are Reconciliation, Relocation, and Redistribution. Here you will find stories, songs, and reflections on the world of grace and bombs.
In this Volume, Shane Claiborne and The Simple Way community takes us on a jouney through our world of economic extremes, from the poverty of Philly’s inner city to the clamor of Wall Street. Begining in an abandoned house, they drive us through the industrial wasteland of Kensington, and they invite us to the New York Stock Exchange for the infamous Jubliee Money Drop.
Multi-media clips included here are designed for educational purposes and biblical study. A beautiful harmony of songs and images, teaching and storytelling unveil the tragic realities of our fragile world and incredible hope that “another world is possible.” Here we are all invited to re-imagine the communality of the early Christian Church and to discover fresh ways of living it out today.
God took dirt and breathed life into it. And then there was humanity.
Humanity took life and breathed dirt into it. And now we have a mess. We
are made in the image of a Creator, and yet much of what we have created has
made the rest of Creation groan for liberation. In this volume, a host of
ordinary radicals invite us to think about what it means to care for the
earth, and to be co-creators with a God of beauty rather than destruction.
We will see toxic lots become gardens, trash turned into fashion show
glamour, used vegetable oil become fuel for diesel engines – ugly things
brought to life. There really is the sense that maybe, just maybe,
conversion can mean that the world will look different than it does now.
Maybe its too much fun for a single volume, but the big-top circus hits the inner
city and a group of intergalactic superheroes visit earth & some
young collaborative artists teach us why the prophets say that a child will
lead us into the dreams of God. That's what we're talking about: Creation.
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- Jamie Moffett
- Shane Claiborne
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- Amber Christis
- Farah Mokhtareizadeh
- Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
- Shane Claiborne
- Leah Wilson-Hartgrove
- Michael Brix
- Tony Campolo
- Demitre Rodriguez
- Nikki Kleinberg
- Amy Gorman
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- Christian Peacemaker Teams
- Voices in the Wilderness
- Circus 2 Iraq
- The Runaway Circus
- Nasir Thamer
- Acrassicuda
- The Simple Way
- CamdenHouse Community
- Yes! And... Camp
- Word and World
- Kate Foran
- William Stringfellow
- Joan Prefontaine
- Pauline Blandina
- John August Swanson
- Cheeko Fajardo
- Eastern Mennonite University
- Cyndi Gusler
- Jerry Holsopple
- The Students of EMU
- Brooke Sexton
- USAntiheroes
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- Jamie Moffett Media Design & Production
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- David Manzo
- Tim Fryett
- Dan Moretz
- Kelly Ireland
- Del Lukens
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- Michael Dolan
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- Ethan Tripp
- Steve Chandler
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- David Manzo
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- Jamie Moffett
- Erik Stenbakken
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- Sarah Butts-Manzo
- Jon Felton & His Soulmobile
- Louis A. Reiger
- John Mallinen
- Psalters
- The Actually Does
- Bycycle Days
- Daniel Dixon
- Anne Weiss
- mewithoutYou
- Joshua Herd Park
- Jes Karper
- 207 Collective
- Saxon Shore
- NevereveN
- The Cobalt Season
