Shane Claiborne, author, activist and Co-Founder of Red Letter Christians, speaks on Jubilee: The bible’s Vision for a Just Economy along with Andrew Hanauer, Campaigns Director of Jubilee USA Network.
Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling 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. And now grace fuels his passion to end the death penalty.
Shane’s 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 and his newest book, Executing Grace. 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, and The Wall Street Journal, and he has been on everything from Fox News and Al Jazeera to CNN and NPR. He’s given academic lectures at Harvard, Princeton, Liberty, Duke, and Notre Dame.
Shane speaks regularly at denominational gatherings, festivals, and conferences around the globe.
Andrew Hanauer is the Campaigns Director at Jubilee USA. Andrew represents Jubilee in policy meetings with the White House, Congress, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations. He serves on steering committees at the United Nations and with the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency coalition. Andrew’s views on poverty and economic policy appear in news outlets including Al Jazeera, Pacifica Radio, Common Dreams and The Washington Free Beacon.
Shane was talking about we suffered from a disease a few years ago and we was in debt. poor countries was so much in debt the couldn’t pay for education or food or nothing the kids was starving. they was wondering where that debt came from they couldn’t even pay for healthcare. they cancelled a 100 million dollars in debt. the use the ferm jubilee for freedom and rejoice. can we heal the broken in our economy but nobody knows if it will ever be healed. they even got payday loans banned. our society says little kids die because this is how I society is set up. I think we can make sure society doesn’t change us. they are saying we don’t live in a fair world and everythings needs to be better than it is because we are all not living in the same rules. our economy is all messed up. because this world is not fair.
Shane was expressing the important view of growing our own crops. The countries that had ebola had a lot of debt was spending on debt was spending it all on getting out of debt instead of healthcare or education. They have a lot of resources to try and fund the education of the people. The people was effected by dictators that left them in all the money debt. They use the term jubilee for freedom and rejoice. As Americans christans we can have the power that to help these countries. There group has raised over 100 million dollars in debt relief so that they could work on health care. The U.S. government in Arizona got payday loans banned. This could help a lot of the world. A man had a view to make the white house change us. everyone has conflict and that we are worried about how worldly pure instead of god purity.