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Shane Claiborne interview 


For a man who’s just arrived on the red-eye flight from Philadelphia to London, Shane Claiborne is looking pretty perky

In appearance he does a good passing impression of a surfer dude, with the only clue to a lack of sleep being a slightly longer note to his Tennessee drawl.

Get chatting to him and it seems the only slumber he’s really bothered about is the one the church is going through.

In his book, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, Shane talks about the awakening the church from its sleep.

What does he mean? What is the church sleeping through?

Twelve probed him on this and other issues.

The interview

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