[Unedited] Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

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🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Spiritual border-crossing and social creativity were themes in a conversation between Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash, two people who have lived with some discomfort within the religious groups they continue to love. Ghobash is a diplomat of the United Arab Emirates and author of Letters to a Young Muslim. One of his responses to the politicization of Islam has been to bring a new art gallery culture to Dubai, creating spaces for thought and beauty. Claiborne is a singular figure in Evangelical Christianity as co-founder of The Simple Way, an intentional neighborhood-based community in North Philadelphia. One of the things he’s doing now is a restorative justice project inspired by a Bible passage — to transform guns into garden tools. This conversation took place at the invitation of Interfaith Philadelphia, which hosted a year of civil conversations modeled after the work of On Being’s Civil Conversations Project.

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0:00.0	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:04.3	the Spiritual Foundation for a Loving World.
0:07.1	Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle and animating force
0:11.7	for our lives, a powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves,
0:17.2	others, and the natural world.
0:19.2	Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:22.6	I'm Christa Tippett.
0:23.9	Up next, my unedited conversation with Evangelical Christian Innovator Shane Clayborn
0:29.4	and Ambassador Omar Safegobash of the United Arab Emirates.
0:34.0	There is a shorter, produced version of this as always wherever you found this podcast.
0:42.0	It is time to please take our seats and to silence our cell phones.
0:50.7	I'm told we're to leave them on, but just silent please.
0:55.0	And also please no flash photography.
0:59.4	I am Rabbi Jill Maiderer and it is a joy to welcome you to Congregation Road of Shalom.
1:08.4	As we as a community right now are in mourning in the wake of the synagogue shooting near San
1:15.5	Diego and in the wake of attacks in Sri Lanka, New Zealand and in the wake of church
1:22.7	burnings.
1:24.6	I look at you, interfaith Philadelphia and I find faith.
1:32.6	And I think of the work of Christa Tippett and I find hope.
1:38.5	In lifting up the values we have been learning from civil conversations and in the practice
1:44.0	of on being we acknowledge that the Land Road of Shalom sits on is Lenape land.
1:52.7	It has been a powerful year engaging in smaller groups in the civil conversations work.
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