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Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and bestselling author. He worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He leads 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 for “good trouble,” and to places like Iraq and Afghanistan to stand against war.
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; Executing Grace; Beating Guns; and Rethinking Life. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Shane speaks around the globe at denominational gatherings, festivals, and conferences. His university lectures include Harvard, Princeton, Liberty, Duke, and Notre Dame. His work has appeared in Esquire, Spin, Christianity Today, Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and he has been featured on Fox News, Al Jazeera, CNN, and NPR. In 2023, Shane received The King Center’s Beloved Community Award for Social Justice from Dr. Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is assistant director at the Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. He serves as an associate minister at St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina. He is a sought-after speaker and the author of more than a dozen books, including The Wisdom of Stability, God’s Economy, Strangers at My Door, and White Poverty with Bishop William J. Barber II.
Jonathan and Bishop Barber publish the popular Our Moral Moment newsletter on Substack. A senior democracy fellow with the Public Religion Research Institute, Jonathan has been featured in the documentary film Bad Faith and in news coverage from CBS News to CNN and The Washington Post. Learn more at www.jonathanwilsonhartgrove.com. Enuma Okoro is a Nigerian-American author, curator, spiritual director, and lecturer. She received her Master of Divinity from Duke University and is trained as a certified spiritual director in the St. Ignatian tradition. Her work explores how engaging art, ecology, and embodied contemplative spiritual practices can nourish the human condition, interrogate inherited narratives, and alter how we live. She is a columnist for The Financial Times where she writes her globally read weekend column, The Art of Life. Learn more about Enuma at www.enumaokoro.com. |