Should Christians Be Patriotic? Shane Claiborne
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🗓️ 4 July 2024
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Summary
Shane Claiborne is a best-selling author, renowned activist, sought-after speaker, and self-proclaimed “recovering sinner.” Shane writes and speaks around the world about peacemaking, social justice, and Jesus, and is the author of several books, including "The Irresistible Revolution," "Jesus for President," "Executing Grace," "Beating Guns," and his newest book, "Rethinking Life (released in Feb 2023)." He is the visionary leader of The Simple Way in Philadelphia and co-director of Red Letter Christians. His work has been featured in Fox News, Esquire, SPIN, TIME, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and CNN.
In this podcast episode (which was recorded on May 1st), we talk about the conflict in Israel-Palestine, student protests on U.S. university campuses, and various things related to patriotism, nationalism, and the gospel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends welcome back to another episode of Theology and Ra. I have a special |
| 0:03.3 | guest today the one and only Shane Claiborne for this special 4th of July episode. |
| 0:09.6 | Shane is a prominent speaker, best-selling author. |
| 0:13.0 | His book, The Irresistible Revolution, |
| 0:17.0 | played, I would say, an Irresistible Revolution in my own heart |
| 0:21.0 | when I read it shortly after it came out back in the late 2000s |
| 0:25.1 | 2007 eight something like that but yeah Shane has been a massive influence in my life I just |
| 0:31.5 | love love his heart spirit, his speaking ability, and just |
| 0:35.8 | his courage in so many areas. So this episode is going to be tailored to today. We do talk about the 4th of July. |
| 0:43.2 | We talk about patriotism. |
| 0:44.4 | We talk about the national and then pledging allegiance. |
| 0:47.2 | And we do begin by talking quite a bit |
| 0:50.2 | about the conflict in Israel, Palestine. |
| 0:53.0 | We are recording this episode a couple months before the 4th of July, |
| 0:57.0 | so we discuss some current events from our time stamp, |
| 1:02.0 | and then we jump into talk about the 4th of July which is happening today. |
| 1:07.4 | So please welcome back to the show, The One and Only, Shane Claiborne. All right, I am here with Shane Claiborne. |
| 1:20.0 | Can I sit, happy 4th of July, everybody? |
| 1:26.2 | Yeah, we can be a unpack that statement. |
| 1:28.4 | Should we even be? |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah, I want to come back to that, but I do want to let my audience know that Shane and I are recording this on May 1st. |
| 1:38.1 | Okay, so y'all are listening to July 4th. |
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