551 Power, Pacifism, & Being Consistently Pro-Life with Shane Claiborne
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to be pro-life? Drawing from the words of Jesus, the Apostles, and the early church, Shane Claiborne says most American Christians have gotten it wrong. His new book, "Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person," argues for the value of the unborn, but also for combating poverty, racism, and other dehumanizing evils. He talks with Skye about how the early church's consistent ethic of life changed once it gained political power. It's one thing for a tiny church on the margins of society to apply the teachings of Jesus, but how do we apply his words when Christians have control of governments and armies? Skye is joined after the interview by Christian Taylor and Phil Vischer to debrief Claiborne's challenging ideas.
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0:46- Intro
3:16 - Shane Claiborne
Tyre Nichols and policing
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13:55 Rethinking Life
28:24 Ethics and power
33:49 Abortion
48:30 Phil, Skye, Christian debrief
1:07:03 End Credits
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored in part by World Relief, the Christian humanitarian organization |
| 0:05.6 | we trust to tackle some of the world's biggest problems. |
| 0:08.9 | In the last couple of years, increased conflict around the world, the lingering effects of |
| 0:12.9 | COVID-19, and disasters caused by our changing climate have left millions of people in desperate |
| 0:19.0 | situations. |
| 0:20.0 | My friends at World Relief, together with their monthly partners, are walking alongside |
| 0:24.1 | people in vulnerable situations every step of the way. |
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| 0:36.0 | That's worldrelief.org slash holypost. |
| 0:39.0 | The problems are big. |
| 0:40.5 | Let's tackle them together with World Relief today. |
| 0:44.2 | Hey everyone, welcome to the Holypost. |
| 0:50.4 | Some of you know that I've been writing a series of books for the last few years called |
| 0:54.0 | What If Jesus Was Serious. |
| 0:56.4 | The basic premise is that the problems Christians are facing today in our society aren't because |
| 1:01.0 | we take Jesus too seriously, but because we don't take him seriously enough. |
| 1:06.4 | That's definitely not true of my guess today. |
| 1:09.2 | My friend Shane Clayborn is an author, an activist, and a speaker, and while plenty of people |
| 1:13.9 | may disagree with him, no one would accuse him of not taking Jesus seriously. |
| 1:18.2 | In fact, he leads red letter Christians, a movement of people committed to living as |
| 1:23.1 | if Jesus actually meant the things he said. |
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