New trend in christianity, with anti-imperialist edge.
Christians in full rebellion Alibi.com
By Jim Scarantino
Jim Scarantino
Monks Chris Haw and Shane Claiborne urge Christians to rebel against the imperial state. You wouldn’t peg Chris Haw and Shane Claiborne as monks. Haw carries himself like a rock climber. Claiborne sports dreadlocks and quotes St. Francis and Gandhi with a hillbilly twang.
Yet Haw and Claiborne are indeed monks. These adherents of what is called New Monasticism live simply among the poor and forgotten at the “political fringes of empire.” Haw moved to the inner city of Camden, N.J. Claiborne lives across the Delaware River in the depressed Kensington section of Philadelphia. Read the rest of this entry »
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