Off The Map Idealab | June 2007 | Issue 0706

Announcing Off The Map Live 2007

It’s Time To Go Off The Map

Each year the Off The Map community (and our growing number of friends) gathers in Seattle. We’re so virtual that we need to meet face to face at least once a year just to make sure people like Helen, Pam, Esther, Al, Ken, Deb, Rose, Rich, Nancy, Bob, Peter, Brian and a host of others actually exist. Read more…

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Interview with Shane Claiborne

by Rachel Stanton

Recently Rachel Stanton had the privilege of interviewing Shane Claiborne for our blog. Shane is a founding member of the New Monastic community the Simple Way and author of The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical. While in college, Shane spent a summer in Calcutta working with Mother Teresa, and in 2003 he traveled to Baghdad as part of the Iraq Peace Team.

Prior to our telephone conversation, I had asked our bloggers to contribute questions. I read the questions to Shane and asked him to share his thoughts…

The first question was from Joe, “Ask him about making his own clothes. Yes, you heard me correctly. The guy. Makes. His own. Clothing.” Laughing, Shane explained, “I love making my clothes! My mom taught me; we sew together almost liturgically every Christmas the clothes for the next year.”

He shared that he caught the vision while living in Calcutta in a village of people with leprosy. Read more…

Join the Reconciliation Tour

An Interview with Dr. Jon Sharpe

By Jim Henderson

Jon Sharpe is the Director of the Center for Global Urban Leadership. He and I have been friends and colleagues for over 30 years. He is planning a trip to Ireland this fall and I wanted to ask him a few questions about it. He will also be joined by Colonel John Michel, a board member of Off The Map

Where did we first meet? I was at Bellevue Community College near Seattle and had an organization we called Christian World Liberation Front (we didn’t have any idea what it really meant other than it sounded radical to us) and we talked the college into giving us funds to have concerts. So, we looked for the wildest Christian band we could find... Read more