A Challenge to Elder Prophets: Help Empower the Next Generation
- Nov, 18 2010
- By jamiemanson
- Church Reform, Writings
If you attended the Call to Action conference earlier this month, you no doubt came in contact with Shane Claiborne. He offered a Friday evening keynote address that was at turns affecting and entertaining.
If you didn’t attend the conference, you may have seen Tom Roberts’s recent profile of this urban monk.
Claiborne became the highly visible figurehead of the “new monasticism” movement after starting a community called The Simple Way with a group of friends from his Evangelical college. The Simple Way is one of many faith-based communities that live among those in need in the hope of creating positive change and transformation through service to the surrounding neighborhood.
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