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769: #769 - Beating Guns and Killing Death: Shane Claiborne

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Theology in the Raw

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🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Preston and Shane sit down for the first time on Theology in the Raw to talk about Christianity, the church, Mother Theresa, guns, gun violence, when he’s getting his dreads back, conservatism and progressivism, and many other topics.


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0:00.0

Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw I am so excited about this

0:06.7

episode I've been wanting to have Shane on the podcast for a I mean a long time a number of years really we've gotten to know each other a bit

0:16.0

over the years mainly from a distance but really share a lot of common interests and

0:20.6

convictions as you'll hear in this podcast.

0:24.0

So, you know, I was gonna read his bio,

0:28.0

his, you know, the list of books he's written

0:30.0

and where you can find him, but you know what,

0:32.0

it's Shane Claiborne, and you're mostly most of you are Christians you should know who this guy is and so

0:38.0

without further ado here is the one and only shame playboy. All right, I'm here with the one and only Shane Claiborne, and we have so much to talk about.

1:06.0

But I want to start with probably maybe the most serious question that I've had about Shane for I would say at least the last six years and that is when are the dreads coming back?

1:19.0

Oh man, yeah, I miss him. I'm not very aerodynamic on my bike with him and stuff, but I do, I had a pillow every time I was, you on an airplane automatically with them but you know I it was funny I was you know I don't know if you know this but I shaved my head when I went to Afghanistan I also did it when I went to Iraq because there's kind of the

1:44.6

cultural dynamic but when they first told me they're like yeah if you're gonna go to

1:48.9

Afghanistan you're gonna need to shave your head and I'm like oh because I'll stand out as you know an American

1:53.6

they're like no actually we're more concerned about you being mistaken as an extremist

1:58.8

because we often have you know kind of watch you're like wow look, grab the scissors, man, yeah.

2:04.0

So I shaved it all off, but, and then for a while, I had a deal with my wife.

2:09.0

She liked it short for a little while, so I got a back massage for every week that I left it short so that's

2:16.0

been a good bride.

2:18.0

So they're not coming back.

2:19.0

You're killing me, man.

2:20.0

No?

2:21.0

Yeah, I don't know.

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