Wearing homemade clothes and dread-locked hair, Shane Claiborne is a 28-year old \'extremist for love\'. With tears and laughter, he unveils the tragic truth of our world and the incredible hope of \'another way of life\'. 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 graduated from Eastern University, and did graduate work at Princeton Seminary.  Recently, Shane spent 3 weeks in Baghdad with the Iraq Peace Team (a project of Voices in the Wilderness and Christian Peacemaker Teams).  Shane was witness to the military bombardment of Baghdad as well as the militarized areas between Baghdad and Amman.  As a member of IPT, Shane took daily trips to sites where there had been bombings, visited hospitals and families, and attended worship services during the war. Shane is a founding partner of The Simple Way, a radical faith community that lives among and serves the homeless in Kensington, North Philadelphia.  They seek to follow Jesus, to rediscover the spirit of the early Church, and to incarnate the \'Kingdom of God\' “ a way of life standing in stark contrast to the world of militarism and materialism.  Their revolution is lived out locally, as their days are spent feeding hungry folks, playing with children, running a community store, hanging out with neighbours, 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 has helped birth and connect many grassroots Christian communities throughout the country, as well as prophetically awaken many others to consider the Gospel as a Way of life. Shane serves on the Board of Directors for the Christian Community Development Association, the largest national association of faith-based organizations.  And he writes and travels extensively speaking about peacemaking, social justice, and Jesus.