videos

Beating Guns

Watch an AR-15 taken apart and turned into a gardening tool.

Breaking Down Military Spending…With Oreos

Shane’s friend Ben Cohen from Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream uses cookies to show how the numbers add up in our federal budget.  (This is the cartoon version… he does it live with real Oreos in Jesus, Bombs, and Ice Cream.)

The World’s Biggest Stockpile of Weapons

Our friend Ben Cohen from Ben & Jerry’s uses BBs to demonstrate how many bombs we have in the US arsenal.  Whoa.

Shane’s Best Sermon Ever

Sometimes folks ask for Shane’s best sermon…so this is it.  (Spoiler Alert: he stole it from Jesus…this is the event he read the Sermon on the Mount, word for word.)

Game Show Giveaway (clip from “Ordinary Radicals”)

What would you do if you won $50,000?  Our friend Mark Weaver did something pretty beautiful with the money he won on The Price Is Right.

A Visual Demonstration on Inequity

Shane and some of the kiddos break down the facts so you can see what it looks like for a most of the world to have so little while a few people have so much.

Growing Food in the Concrete Jungle

Go on a tour of our aquaponics system, where we’ve created an ecosystem to grow fish and plants together in the middle of the concrete world of urban life. This one’s all about the revolutionary work of growing your own food, especially in the food desert.

The Lynchburg Revival with Shane Claiborne

Produced and Directed by Greg Fromholz. Additional Thanks to Shane Claiborne, Don Golden and Red Letter Christians.

The Wall Street Money Drop

We invited homeless folks to Wall Street, and gave away $10,000 in cash in front of the New York Stock Exchange… in the Spirit of the biblical Jubilee, God’s ancient vision for dismantling economic inequality.

Conversation on Faith and Politics with Shane, Greg Boyd, and Chuck Colson

Krista Tippett hosted this inter-generational conversation on politics.  It’s timely, and it’s really nice to see folks disagree and still enjoy each other.  This was one of the last conversations Shane had with Chuck Colson before he died in 2012.

Circus Theology

Shane loves the circus.  In this short film he’ll tell you why.  You may have never thought of the circus arts as spiritual… until now.

Prayer of Resistance

Shane leads thousands of people in a call and response prayer against the principalities and powers of evil.  This prayer is found in the book Jesus for President.

Letter from the Birmingham Jail

Influential Christian leaders from Red Letter Christians read Dr. King’s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” — word for word.  It speaks powerfully to the times we are living in.

Introduction to Common Prayer (at Willow Creek Community Church)

Shane and Aaron Niequist lead Willow Creek in worship based on the prayers and songs from Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals.

The Death Penalty

This is Shane's 9-minute talk on the death penalty.