Shane Claiborne - Joining the Irresistible Revolution (N06)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2009

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Shane Claiborne is a leading figure in the New Monasticism movement and a founding member of The Simple Way community. Oh, and he wrote the influential book, The Irresistible Revolution. Shane tells us how Jesus inspired him to move to a deprived area of Philadelphia and share his life with the poor and marginalised.

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church.
0:16.1	Welcome to Nomad podcast. I'm Tim and with Nick, Michael, Laura and Hannah, we're going to be spending
0:22.3	the next half an hour or so thinking about Christian community, mission and the future of the church.
0:27.8	On this show, we're going to be having a chat with Shane Claiborne, author of The Irresistible Revolution.
0:33.3	And of course, we'll be having a look at your emails and there'll be the usual chat from us.
0:46.0	Thank you. And of course, we'll be having a look at your emails, and there'll be the usual chat from us. This month's guest on Nomad podcast is Mr Shane Claiborne all the way from Philadelphia in the US of A. Shane, great to have you on the show.
0:56.1	Yes, great, great to be with you, man.
0:58.4	For people who won't have heard of you, how would you describe yourself?
1:05.1	Oh, well, I guess I am an author.
1:13.6	The official line is usually author, activist, and recovering center.
1:17.6	And I guess that covers it pretty well.
1:19.6	You know, I've been following Jesus with a community here in Philadelphia for the past decade or so.
1:25.6	And I grew up in East Tennessee, which is about as different as
1:33.3	North Philly as it gets. I grew up in the hills down there in the Bible Belt. And I moved up here
1:39.9	and went to college and then got involved in the city. And that's really what's kept me up here
1:45.3	is my neighborhood. Brilliant. I guess many people will know you as the author of The Irresistible
1:50.4	Revolution. And you mentioned that you live in a community called The Simple Way. How would
1:56.0	you describe that community? The Simple Way is really a group of friends that stumbled into this journey
2:04.1	really ten years ago when there was a group of homeless families that were living in an
2:09.4	abandoned cathedral in this neighborhood. And we got involved in their struggle for housing.
2:17.3	And it was really in there that we started reading the
2:20.4	Book of Acts about the early church. And it said all the believers were together and shared
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