Controversial author Shane Claiborne packs an old Baptist church in Pittsburgh to discuss a new book he co-authored called “Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals.”
Claiborne spent 10 weeks working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India, and has authored the book “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical.”
Tim Challies reviewed “The Irresistible Revolution” last month.
Cedarville University created a stir by un-inviting Claiborne from a lecture he was to deliver at the school in February.
Claiborne has blogged at times at the God’s Politics blog. You can find out more information about him at The Simple Way’s website.
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July 2, 2008 at 9:56 am
Damon
Based on Challies review (although I’ve not read Shane’s book for myself), I think I would disagree with Shane in several key areas. However, I also think it’s unfortunate that he was “un-invited” to Cedarville. I think we could have had a profitable interaction with him, and that our students, guided by our gifted faculty, could have sifted the chaff from the wheat. Unfortunately, the un-invite, while warranted because of need to respond to slanderous and ungodly attacks that we received from fellow believers, helped make him a martyr in many people’s eyes. I fear now that many students will read his book or watch his youtube postings with a much more sympathetic bent, and might end up absorbing more of his ideas than are biblically warranted.