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Shane Claiborne (born July 11, 1975) is an American evangelical Christian and founder, an author and organizational leader.He is one of the founders of the non-profit organization, The Simple Way, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, cofounder of the Red-Letter Christians, and has been described as a founder, as well, of the New Monastic movement. [1]
Shane Claiborne and five other Eastern University graduates founded an intentional community [1] when they moved into a terraced house in the neighborhood of Kensington in January 1998. [2] [3] They purposely started the community in the poorest area of the city, which was a place where there were no existing local churches. [4]
Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals is a 2008 book co-written by the evangelical authors Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw, two important figures in New Monasticism. The book asserts that the countercultural themes in the ministry of Jesus , such as those of self-denial , are ignored by American Christians because they have become ...
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Campolo was born to an Italian-American family in Philadelphia on February 25, 1935. [2] He studied at Eastern College and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1956. [3] He was ordained a Baptist pastor in 1957. [3] He also studied theology at Palmer Theological Seminary and obtained a Bachelor of Divinity in 1960 and a Master of Divinity in 1961. [4]
The organization was founded by Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne in 2007 with the aim of bringing together evangelicals who believe in the importance of insisting on issues of social justice mentioned by Jesus (in red in some translations of the Bible).
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O.J. Simspson poses for a portrait with his wife Marguerite Whitley Simpson, daughter Arnelle and son Jason on January 8, 1973. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images The late O.J. Simpson was father ...