Common Prayer – Shane Claiborne & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on SBE

Erik Guzman December 31st, 2010

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Are you sick of feeling disconnected and isolated in your faith? At a loss for how to pray? Ready for something radical in 2011? Then ring in the new year with our favorite ordinary radical, Shane Claiborne, and his communal cohort, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, today on Steve Brown Etc.!

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Shane and Jonathan have put together a liturgy for ordinary radicals called Com … (Read More)

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Now Go and Tell Someone!

Steve Brown October 15th, 2009

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Last month I told you about my lousy job-thinking God commissioned me to keep people from sinning. It was a lousy job because I wasn't very successful at it and people, no matter what I said or did, kept on sinning. Then I realized that the teacher wasn't doing that great either.

Now let me tell you something else. I not only had a lousy job, I had (and still have) a job I really ought not to be doing. If I were God choosing someone to do what I do, I wouldn&# … (Read More)

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Puppet Show

Erik Guzman July 18th, 2007

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Sure we wish we could be doing real ministry, but for some reason God's H.R. folks have placed us here in the Buffoonery Department. However, the next best thing to actually serving Jesus is, of course, promoting people who do.

Today on Etcetera, we talked with Jamie Moffett, co-founder (along with Shane Claiborne) of The Simple Way community in inner-city Philadelphia. One month ago, a 7-alarm fire destroyed their community center/house and many of their neighbo … (Read More)

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Shane Claiborne – On Fire for Jesus

Erik Guzman June 22nd, 2007

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Shane Claiborne is an ordinary radical whose community, The Simple Way, is in extraordinary trouble.

Shane stopped by Steve Brown Etc. this week to talk about the 7-alarm blaze that destroyed The Simple Way's community center. In addition to being Shane's home, it was home to their afterschool program, community arts center, and Cottage Printworks t-shirt micro-business.

Check out the show, then get involved in the rebuilding effort. Go to thesimpleway.org t … (Read More)

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Shane Claiborne's Community Burns

Erik Guzman June 21st, 2007

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I got up this morning and started to replace the Shane Claiborne interview with this week's edition of The Brown Sessions. I didn't get far before I came across a comment and this post from Mike informing us that Shane's neighborhood in Kensington was consumed by a massive fire yesterday. Thanks for the heads up, Mike.

According to thesimpleway.org, "…a 7-alarm fire consumed an abandoned warehouse in our Kensington neighborhood in Philadelph … (Read More)

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