Center for Action and Contemplation

Shane Claiborne & Fr. Richard Rohr
Thursday, April 8 • 9a - 4:30p (lunch included)

Prepare for the Emerging Christianity Conference with a SLOWING DOWN DAY on our classic and ever-fruitful themes of action and contemplation. 

Our dear friend Shane Claiborne will spend the morning with us on the theme of sacred activism, sharing his experience of life and ministry on the streets of Philadelphia with his ministry, The Simple Way.

Fr. Richard Rohr will spend the afternoon working with some of the themes in his latest book, The Naked Now:  Learning to See as the Mystics See.  Both are foundational to any new emerging Christianity.

$50 regular / $35 concession (student/fixed income)

Shane Claiborne

is a founding partner of The Simple Way, a faith community in inner-city Philadelphia that has helped to birth and connect radical faith communities around the world. These 'new monastic' communities seek to follow Jesus, to rediscover the spirit of the early Church, and to incarnate the “Kingdom of God” -- standing in stark contrast to the world of militarism and materialism. At the Simple Way, their little revolution is lived out locally, as days are spent feeding hungry folks, doing collaborative arts with children, running a community store, hanging out with neighbors, and reclaiming trash-strewn lots by planting gardens. Shane and The Simple Way do much work to expose the fundamental structures that create poverty and to imagine alternatives to them. Shane graduated from Eastern University, and did graduate work at Princeton Seminary. His ministry experience is varied, from a 10-week stint working alongside Mother Teresa in Calcutta, to a year spent serving a wealthy mega-congregation at Willow Creek Community Church outside Chicago. Shane serves on the Board of Directors for The Christian Community Development Association (www.ccda.org/). Shane writes and travels extensively speaking about peacemaking, social justice, and Jesus. He is featured in the DVD series “Another World Is Possible” and is the author of the several books including The Irresistible Revolution and Jesus for President.

 

Richard Rohr, o.f.m.,

an internationally known author and spiritual teacher, is a Franciscan of the New Mexico province and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation. He considers the proclamation of the Gospel to be his primary call and the related  themes he addresses include Eco-Spirituality, Scripture as liberation, the integration of action and contemplation, community building, peace and justice issues, male spirituality, and the Enneagram. He is a regular contributing writer for Sojourners and Tikkun magazines. Some of his best known books include: Everything Belongs; Radical Grace: Daily Meditations; Adam’s Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation; The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective; From Wild Men to Wise Men: Reflections on Male Spirituality; and his latest book The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See is due out in September 2009. Fr. Richard has also been a featured essayist on NPR’s “This I Believe” and a guest of Dr. Mehmet Oz on the “Oprah and Friends” radio show; he also appears in the 2006 documentary, ONE, featuring spiritual teachers from around the world. Check the Mustard Seed Resource Center for all Fr. Richard's works.