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Common Prayer: Pocket Edition
by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Common Prayer: Pocket Edition helps individuals and today’s diverse church pray together across traditions and denominations. With an ear to the particulars of various liturgical prayer traditions, and using an advisory team of liturgy experts, the authors have created a tapestry of prayer that celebrates the best of each tradition. This convenient and portable book also includes tools for prayer scattered throughout to aid those unfamiliar with liturgy and deepen the prayer life of those already familiar with liturgical prayer. Common Prayer Pocket Edition adds new prayers for compline (late evening) and for individual use, such as prayers for travel, protection, and various blessings. It includes a table of days and readings for the morning prayers as well as an annotated list of saints and days to remember. Churches and individuals who desire a deeper prayer life—and those familiar with Shane Claiborne and New Monasticism—will enjoy the tools offered in this book as a fresh take on liturgy.
$15
Follow Me To Freedom
by Shane Claiborne & John Perkins
Product Description
John says it’s a book on leadership. Shane says it’s a book on followership. The truth is… it’s probably a little of both, and that’s exactly what we need. In an age of division over race, class, age, theology, and politics this book brings together an unlikely duo with a radical message of reconciliation. Their backgrounds are very different, but the future they invite us to imagine is exactly the same. Claiborne and Perkins harmonize their voices in this fresh, winsome, and insightful look at what it means to embody with our lives the gospel that we proclaim with our lips. Follow Me to Freedom is a call to lead—a life, a community, a revolution that moves the world a little closer to God’s dream.
You can get this book FREE! Just sign up for CONSP!RE magazine, and we’ll send your both the boundary-busting magazine and this book free. John Perkins and Shane Claiborne both write for this new magazine designed to nurture folks in following the way of Jesus. (Shipping charges apply to this offer)
$13
Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers
by Shane Claiborne & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Activists Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove show how prayer and action must go together. Their exposition of key Bible passages provides concrete examples of how a life of prayer fuels social engagement and the work of justice.
$16
Common Prayer
by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, & Enuma Okoro
Product Description
With an ear to the particulars of various liturgical traditions, the authors have created a tapestry of prayer that celebrates the best of each tradition. The book also includes a songbook composed of music and classic lyrics to over fifty songs from various traditons, including African spirituals, traditional hymns, Mennonite gathering songs and Taize chants.
Tools for prayer are scattered throughout to aid those who are unfamiliar with liturgy and to deepen the prayer life of those who are familiar with liturgical prayer.
Ultimately, Common Prayer makes liturgy dance, taking the best of the old and bringing new life to it with a fresh fingerprint for the contemporary renewal of the church. Churches and individuals who desire a deeper prayer life and those familiar with Shane Claiborne and New Monasticism will enjoy the tools offered in this book as a fresh take in liturgy.
This product will be released on 12/05/10
$5
Conspire Issue 1: Resurrection Stories
by Assorted Contributors
Spiritual Practices, Books, Conspire
Conspire! in a quarterly publication from a diverse network of communities and groups. Many of us have made some commitment to life in community in a specific location. Conspire! exists to explore in a collaborative, creative, and corporate way some of the unique issues that arise from community life. At the same time, it engages the struggles of many who are not in such communities. Some of us are seeking community, some of us are recovering from community. Some of us would be thrilled to find just one kindred spirit.
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Conspire Issue 2: Sacred Subversions
by Various Contributors
Do It Yourself, Spiritual Practices, Books, Conspire
Poet Wendell Berry’s famous mad farmer urges us: “So friends, every day, do something / that won’t compute. Love the Lord. / Love the world. Work for nothing. / Take all that you have and be poor.” This issue of Consp!re focuses on such creativity—small and large actions that work to overturn business as usual and open brilliant windows onto the crazy, grace-filled reign of God. Some of those actions require community; others are individual attempts. You’ll find stories and struggles of living the revolutionary word of Jesus, which intends to reshape our earth, our economy, every human heart, and the entire web of human relationships. It means no less than to turn the world.
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Conspire Issue 4: Becoming Fire
by Various Contributors
Teach us to pray. Followers of Jesus have been making that request for a couple of millennia now. The question of prayer—what is it, what it means, how and why we do it—has resulted in a dizzying array of ideas, forms, and practices. This issue of Conspire probes prayer in an age of consumerism and distraction. What unique stresses do our frenetic pace, relative global affluence, and access to technology place on our prayer life? What prayer practices might ground us and our communities? What are our prayer blasphemies and deepest doubts?
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Economic Conspiracy Project: Relationality
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In Relationality, you are about to read the words of a man that makes banana bread out of the peels that I throw away. The concept of Relationality can be understanding in terms of direct interactions between people. We can know something about someone without knowing them. Relationality is to know and experience, not simply exchange knowledge.
The Economic Conspiracy Project
This project has been created as a resource that sheds light on alternative economic sharing and a biblical understanding of money. Each book stands alone. They are designed to be used in a host of different settings: small groups, private and organizational retreats, individual devotions, church-school classes, and however you choose.
Here is a snippet of what you can expect
As we have seen, poverty is usually understanding as a lack of something: housing, jobs, education, money, clothing, cars, ipods… But what if we redefine poverty not as the lack of possessions or the lack of access to the goods of the consumer society? What if we say that poverty is something else?
Once I was in Germany giving a lecture and I asked the audience a simple question: What is poverty? The answers were typical, like the ones I mentioned above. Then I invited them to carry out the following thought experiment: “Imagine that you just lost everything you have. How much time you would need to find a place to sleep, or to find something to wear, or to get some food to eat? How much time would you need to start again? And, what would you do to start fixing the situation?”
They said, as most of us would probably say, that they could meet their immediate needs in a matter of hours if not minutes, and that they would need just several days, or perhaps a couple of weeks, to start over. They said they would deal with the situation by calling or finding some of their friends, by calling a relative, or by walking in a well- known neighborhood.
Then I asked them: “Why do you think you could do this so easily and so quickly?” Their answer was simple: “Because we have friends and family.” “But imagine,” I said to them, “if you were alone and nobody wanted to talk to you or to receive your collect calls. What would happen?” My point was this: poverty is not fundamentally the lack of things or of stuff, but rather the lack of friends. To be poor is to have no friends.
$25
Economy of Love DVD and Book
by Relational Tithe
Economy of Love: Creating a Community of Enough
America thrives on a simple message-that what we currently have is not enough. Not big enough, not nice enough, not fast or hip enough.
The American Dream is based on wanting more. But does God’s dream for the world look like the American Dream?
In this five-week study, unpack what the patterns of God’s kingdom look like compared to the patterns of our world. What is the value of enough, and how do we become more like the God who is close to the poor, the hungry, the meek, and the merciful?
Economy of Love will challenge individuals to join in community, journeying together as they begin to considera new standard of living-a personal economic threshold oriented not around the size of a monthly paycheck, but around the value of enough.
$13 - On Back Order
Enough: Contentment in an Age of Excess
by Will Samson
Tailor-made for an age of anxiety, this volume, written particularly for Christians, attempts to address and answer the author’s question: “What would it be like to be formed by communities consumed by God and God’s vision for the world?” Threading his own conservative evangelical background and his family’s present experiences as part of an intentional community throughout the book, the author also uses Scripture to delineate an alternative vision: countercultural “Eucharistic Communities” that offer their resources to the world.
$13 
Free to Be Bound
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Jonathan was a product of the new South: color-blind and culturally sensitive. Yet despite his progressive worldview, he was unaware of the invisible borders that still divide local communities. Free to Be Bound chronicles Jonathan’s experience as he crosses color lines that fragment the church—lines that should make us question why they exist at all. With an honest heart and passionate voice, Jonathan delivers a call for true unity within the church that will inspire every believer.
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Inhabiting the Church
by Jon R. Stock, Tim Otto, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
If the church is more than just a building, what could it mean to live in it—to inhabit it as a way of life? From their location in new monastic communities, Otto, Stock, and Wilson-Hartgrove ask what the church can learn from St. Benedict’s vows of conversion, obedience, and stability about how to live as the people of God in the world. In story-telling and serious engagement with Scripture, old wisdom breathes life into a new monasticism. But, like all monastic wisdom, these reflections are not just for monks. They speak directly to the challenge of being the church in America today and the good news Christ offers for the whole world.
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Iraq Journal 2003
by Shane Claiborne
Peacemaking, War-Resistance, Books
IRAQ JOURNAL 2003 is Shane Claiborne’s account of his peacemaking trip to Iraq in March 2003, just before the US invasion. Told mostly through emails that he sent home, this book offers a gracious and humanizing depiction of the Iraqi people. Shane Claiborne is a member of the Simple Way community in Philadelphia and is also author of the The Irresistible Revolution (Zondervan 2006). From the rear cover: “One of the children we are close to, Amal, decided to celebrate her 13th birthday with us! So we had a feast, grilled out in a park nearby… As we were playing a little game of balloon volleyball, bombs began to explode in the background. The adults all looked uneasily at each other, but we kept playing. Then one explosion hit very close. A couple of us huddled down with the little children… These children were raised hearing bombs, in 1998, in 1991… and yet they will still play in a park with the people whose country is destroying theirs… As bombs continued to thunder in the background, I was reminded once again that life is more powerful than death, that children can teach old tyrants and cynics how to love.”
$17
Jesus for President
by Shane Claiborne & Chris Haw
Product Description
Jesus for President is a radical manifesto to awaken the Christian political imagination, reminding us that our ultimate hope lies not in partisan political options but in Jesus and the incarnation of the peculiar politic of the church as a people “set apart” from this world. In what can be termed lyrical theology, Jesus for President poetically weaves together words and images to sing (rather than dictate) its message. It is a collaboration of Shane Claiborne’s writing and stories, Chris Haw’s reflections and research, and art and design.
Drawing upon the work of biblical theologians, the lessons of church history, and the examples of modern-day saints and ordinary radicals, Jesus for President stirs the imagination of what the Church could look like if it placed its faith in Jesus instead of Caesar.
A fresh look at Christianity and empire, Jesus for President transcends questions of “Should I vote or not?” and “Which candidate?” by thinking creatively about the fundamental issues of faith and allegiance. It’s written for those who seek to follow Jesus, rediscover the spirit of the early church, and incarnate the kingdom of God.
$15
New Monasticism
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Community, Spiritual Practices, Books
New Monasticism is a growing movement of committed Christians who are recovering the radical discipleship of monasticism and unearthing a fresh expression of Christianity in America. It’s not centered in a traditional monastery (many New Monastics are married with children) but instead its members live radically, settling in abandoned sections of society, committing to community, sharing incomes, serving the poor, and practicing spiritual disciplines. New Monasticism by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove offers an insider’s perspective into the life of the New Monastics and shows how this movement is dependent on the church for stability, diversity, and structure.
$15
Practicing the Way of Jesus
by Mark Scandrette
Take a casual survey of how people practice their faith, and you might reasonably conclude that Jesus spent his life going door to door offering private lessons, complete with chalkboard and pop quizzes. We think about God in the comfort of our own minds, in isolation from one another; meanwhile the world waits for a people to practice the way of Jesus together. Mark Scandrette contends that Jesus has in mind something more lively for us: not a classroom so much as a kingdom, where our formation takes place not only in our heads but in our hearts and our bodies, and in the company of one another, in a way that blesses the world we’ve been entrusted with. In Practicing the Way of Jesus, Scandrette draws from his experience as a spiritual director and leader of an intentional community, as well as the best contemporary thinking on kingdom spirituality, to paint a picture of life lived together, in the way of Jesus—which is another way of saying life lived to the full.
$22
School(s) for Conversion
by Rutba House
Community, Spiritual Practices, Books
Product Description
Throughout the history of the church, monastic movements have emerged to explore new ways of life in the abandoned places of society. School(s) for Conversion is a communal attempt to discern the marks of a new monasticism in the inner-cities and forgotten landscapes of the Empire that is called America.
$13
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
by Shane Claiborne
Alternative Economics, Do It Yourself, Poverty, Books
Product Description
During college, a professor remarked, “Being a Christian is about choosing Jesus and deciding to do something incredibly daring with your life.” Taking up that challenge, Shane’s faith led him to dress the wounds of lepers with Mother Teresa, visit families in Iraq amidst bombings, and dump $10,000 on Wall Street to redistribute wealth. In The Irresistible Revolution, you’ll be challenged by a radical Christianity passionate for peace, social justice, and alleviating the suffering found in the local neighborhood and distant reaches of the world. Live out your faith with little acts of radical love as you join the movement of God’s Spirit into a broken world.
Here’s a Chapter of Shane’s book The Irresistible Revolution. You can now read Chapter 5 “Another Way of Doing Life” for free.
Publisher’s Description
Using unconventional examples from his own life, Shane Claiborne stirs up questions about the church and the world, and challenges readers to truly live out their Christian faith.
$16
To Baghdad & Beyond
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove & Tony Campolo
Product Description
To Baghdad and Beyond is the story of a young evangelical couple who followed the conviction of their faith into a war zone and discovered an alternative to the violence of empires and the complicity of quietism in the “third way” of Jesus’s beloved community. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove writes of his journey from a rural Southern Baptist church to Iraq in a time of war to a Christian community of hospitality in an urban neighborhood. Excited by ways that Christian hope is taking concrete form, Wilson-Hartgrove describes a new monastic movement that is witnessing to a world at war that another way is possible.
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