Shane Claiborne

Shane Claiborne ( born July 11, 1975) is an American author, political activist and Christian speaker.

He is best known for his books, "I must be crazy to live this way: Uncompromising experiments in charity ", " Jesus for President" and " God responds differently: How are we going to answer to our prayers ."

In his books, he propagates a Christian lifestyle, which mainly includes care and housing for people on the margins of society. Claiborne aware of its political, ecological and economic difficulties (including Sweatshop issue) and offers solutions and suggestions for other sustainable and ethical lifestyle.

Shane Claiborne went to several trips, of which he, in his book " I must be crazy to live ... " reports. Among other things, he spent several weeks in a leprosy hospital and other projects of Mother Teresa in Calcutta and traveled as a peace activist in Iraq to protest against the Iraq war. This journey is also documented in the book "Iraq Journal".

He lives in a monastery-like community in a poor neighborhood of Philadelphia, The Simple Way, which also accommodates couples and charitable actions carried out in their neighborhood.

Works

• What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff? " ( Esquire Magazine, November 18, 2009 )
• To live I must be crazy, so: Uncompromising experiments in charity ISBN 978-3765539350
• Iraq Journal 2003 ( Doulos Christou, 2006) ISBN 0974479675
• Jesus for President: Uncompromising experiments in politics ISBN 978-3765514449
• Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson - Hartgrove: (we As if in answer to our prayers ) Uncompromising experiments in Prayer: God responds differently. ISBN 978-3765540905
• Follow Me To Freedom: Leading and Following as an Ordinary Radical, with John Perkins ( Regal Books, 2009 ) ISBN 0830751203
• Shane Claiborne and John Perkins: Come with me to freedom (Cap Books 2011), ISBN 3867731195