{"id":29761,"date":"2016-09-08T08:49:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=29761"},"modified":"2016-09-19T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T13:42:55","slug":"shane-claiborne-jubilee-usa-network-announce-new-partnership-emu-visit-address-biblical-vision-just-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/shane-claiborne-jubilee-usa-network-announce-new-partnership-emu-visit-address-biblical-vision-just-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Claiborne and Jubilee USA Network announce new partnership during EMU visit to address biblical vision for a just economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Claiborne of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redletterchristians.org\/\">Red Letter Christians<\/a> and Andrew Hanauer, campaigns director for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jubileeusa.org\/home.html\">Jubilee USA Network<\/a>, will kick off a new partnership between the two organizations with a visit to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in Harrisonburg, Virginia, on Wednesday, Sept. 14. The day\u2019s events will focus on a Christian view of economics that includes people and groups on the margins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs they started looking at where they wanted to launch this campaign, they chose us as the first site,\u201d Director of Campus Ministries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/bb329\">Brian Martin Burkholder<\/a> says. \u201cThey wanted a place where they thought the message would resonate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It will be at least the third time Claiborne has <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/01\/claiborne-challenges-students-to-service-volunteer\/\">visited EMU<\/a>, most recently in 2013. Burkholder says that Claiborne\u2014a noted author, speaker and activist whose books include \u201cJesus for President\u201d and \u201cThe Irresistible Revolution\u201d\u2014 \u201cconnects well\u201d with the EMU community and with EMU\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29765\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/09\/shane-claiborne-jubilee-usa-network-announce-new-partnership-emu-visit-address-biblical-vision-just-economy\/top_jubileeusa\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29765\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29765 size-full\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/09\/top_jubileeusa.gif\" alt=\"top_jubileeusa\" width=\"235\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jubilee USA is a coalition of more than 650 US organizations, faith communities and global partners that works for economic justice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHis theology and his take on faithful living resonates pretty deeply with Anabaptist theology and yet encourages and challenges us,\u201d Burkholder says. \u201cIt moves us beyond complacency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claiborne and Hanauer will both share during the <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/events\/monthview.php?id=23496\">day\u2019s headline event<\/a>, a public forum with Q&amp;A at 7 p.m. in Lehman Auditorium. They will address the theme \u201cJubilee: The Bible\u2019s Vision for a Just Economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hanauer will also speak at a chapel service on \u201cJubilee Economics\u201d at 10 a.m., followed by a talk-back session with Claiborne over lunch, and Claiborne will share with the campus community at a dinner gathering focused on \u201cDoing What Jesus Said\u201d at 5 p.m. Hanauer will join Claiborne again for a late-evening residence hall dialogue time.<\/p>\n<p>Claiborne\u2019s work with Red Letter Christians\u2014an organization he founded with prominent Christian speaker Tony Campolo \u201cto take Jesus seriously by endeavoring to live out His radical, counter-cultural teachings as set forth in Scripture\u201d\u2014and with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesimpleway.org\/\">The Simple Way<\/a> community in Philadelphia meshes well with Jubilee USA Network\u2019s emphasis on \u201cbuilding an economy that serves, protects and promotes participation of the most vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s apparent now that the inequity between the super-rich and super-poor is one of the most pressing ethical issues of our time,\u201d Claiborne says. \u201cAll of that looks very different from the patterns of scripture. A lot of us, particularly people of faith, know that the world doesn\u2019t have to be this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EMU was a natural place to launch the initiative, he says, because it is an institution \u201cknown for its work with things like reconciliation and doing something about racial injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Jubilee USA\u2014a coalition of more than 650 US organizations, faith communities and global partners\u2014Claiborne provides a known and respected voice that can raise their visibility and draw greater attention to Jubilee USA\u2019s work, especially on college campuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to engage with Christian young adults around the idea of jubilee economics\u2014debt reduction and all kinds of things about reshaping policy around kingdom economics,\u201d Burkholder says. \u201cIncluding Shane in the campaign means more interest and a higher level of engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a \u201cunique opportunity,\u201d Burkholder adds, for business students and others to explore the relationship between the areas of business and economics and the areas of faith, an intersection that doesn\u2019t always receive a great deal of attention.<\/p>\n<p>Business Department chair J<a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/jml339\">im Leaman<\/a> notes, \u201cThe core message of Claiborne and Jubilee USA resonates with EMU\u2019s perspective on business as a holistic social enterprise that has the potential to serve the common good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Claiborne of Red Letter Christians and Andrew Hanauer, campaigns director for Jubilee USA Network, will kick off a new partnership between the two organizations with a visit to Eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/shane-claiborne-jubilee-usa-network-announce-new-partnership-emu-visit-address-biblical-vision-just-economy\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Shane Claiborne and Jubilee USA Network announce new partnership during EMU visit to address biblical vision for a just economy<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,5589,5591,14184,14715,5185,17562,5610,265,6287],"tags":[5809,11468],"feature":[17424,17241],"class_list":["post-29761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applied-social-sciences","category-bible-and-religion","category-business-and-leadership","category-campus-guests","category-campus-life","category-campus-ministries","category-digest","category-mba","category-seminary","category-social-work","tag-brian-martin-burkholder","tag-jim-leaman","feature-featured-graduate","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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