Shane Claiborne, Jesus for President

Yesterday the mail brought me Shane Claiborne's Jesus for President. I first heard of Claiborne while listening to a recent interview by Krista Tippett on Speaking of Faith. It was a passionate discussion about what's unfolding in public and in private conversations among Evangelical leaders and communities. Should Christians be involved in politics and if so, how? What has gone wrong, and what has been learned from the Moral Majority up until now. In this live public conversation, Krista probes these ideas with three formative Evangelicals: Chuck Colson (a hero in the faith for my father who was a prison chaplain), Greg Boyd, and Shane Claiborne.

Colson is the founder of Prison Fellowship and author of God & Government; Boyd is a former atheist who surrendered his life to Christ in 1974, a graduate of Yale Divinity School and Princeton Theological Seminary, Professor of Theology for 16 years at Bethel University. founder and senior pastor of Woodland Hills Church, an evangelical megachurch in St. Paul, MN, and author of The Myth of a Christian Nation.

After hearing the interview, I ordered Claiborne's Jesus for President.

Visit Claiborne's homepage to take note how a radical disciple of Christ is also an intelligent and articulate spokesman for non-violent Christianity. When I get back from Ireland, I'll be glad to loan Jesus for President to any of my central-Kentucky and Georgia friends. It's a great read!

By the way, in the decades ahead, God willing, you'll be hearing much more from and about Shane Claiborne.