Songs of the Self

What do Shane Claiborne and Walt Whitman have in common?  Very little, I suppose.  But they intersect in my mind’s work this week.  Claiborne recently spoke at Bethany Theological Seminary where I am taking a class called Theopoetics.  Enter Whitman.  Lauded by all the leading thinkers and writers in the field of theopoetics, old Walt,…