Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

About Chris HawShane Claiborne

Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker activist and bestselling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He heads up Red Letter Christians a movement of folks who are committed to living as if Jesus meant the things he said. Shane is a champion for grace which has led him to jail advocating for the homeless and to places like Iraq and Afghanistan to stand against war. Now grace fuels his passion to end the death penalty. Shanes books include Jesus for President Red Letter Revolution Common Prayer Follow Me to Freedom Jesus Bombs and Ice Cream Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers his classic The Irresistible Revolution Executing Grace and Beating Guns. He has been featured in a number of films including Another World Is Possible and Ordinary Radicals. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Shane speaks over one hundred times a year nationally and internationally. His work has appeared in Esquire SPIN Christianity Today the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and he has been on everything from Fox News and Al Jazeera to CNN and NPR. Hes given academic lectures at Harvard Princeton Liberty Duke and Notre Dame.  Shane speaks regularly at denominational gatherings festivals and conferences around the globe. Chris Haw is a husband father carpenter and an assistant professor of theology and religious studies at the University of Scranton. He has published various academic articles on political theology and René Girards mimetic theory and he is coauthor of Jesus for President and author of From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart and Monotheism Intolerance and the Path to Pluralistic Politics. He created and directs the University of Scranton Prison Education Program.