Shane Claiborne

Maybe It’s Time to Rethink the Second Amendment

March 25, 2021

Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice

The Second Amendment offers neither the moral authority nor unlimited legal authority for gun ownership. It is time that Americans, and especially my fellow evangelical Christians, refocus the faith they have placed in that article.

A Former Confederate State Just Voted To Abolish Its Death Penalty

Shane Claiborne

February 6, 2021

Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Race

But it’s worth celebrating Virginia, the “home of the Confederacy,” as the first state in the old Confederate South to abolish the death penalty. The two facts are related, because the death penalty cannot be separated from our history of race and slavery in America.

Is Killing Lisa Montgomery the Best Version of Justice We Have?

Shane Claiborne

January 11, 2021

Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice

None of us is above reproach and none of us is beyond redemption. That is a core truth of the Christian faith. And it is a truth that is undermined every time we execute someone.

La’s Skid Row Doesn’t Need Sean Feucht’s ‘Revival’

Shane Claiborne, David Gibbons and Cue Jn-Marie

December 31, 2020

Church Life, General, Practical Justice

In an attempt to defend his event, Feucht accused these pastors of preventing him from “bringing Jesus to the streets of LA.” Dear Sean: Jesus is already on Skid Row.

God’s Up to Something: Laboring in Expectation

Shane Claiborne

December 16, 2020

General, Practical Justice, Revival

What a time to be alive. What a time to be a part of a movement, a revolution, a holy uprising of love in the world. Thank you for being a part of Red Letter Christians. We look forward to all that God is going to do in 2021.

Midwives of a New World

Shane Claiborne

December 10, 2020

General, Global, Theology

We need a more robust theology of a God who suffers with us—who was born on the margins and executed on the cross, who knows what it feels like to say “I can’t breathe”—as thousands of folks are saying throughout the streets of America. God is with us.

William Barr and the Politics of Death

Shane Claiborne

November 19, 2020

General

We are not executing the ‘worst of the worst,’ as some may believe, but the poorest of the poor, and disproportionately people of color.

A New Chapter in the American Experiment

Shane Claiborne

November 9, 2020

General, Politics, Practical Justice

So today, let us celebrate. And tomorrow, let us organize. We are still in a battle for the soul of our nation, and for the soul of our faith. This election is not the finish line. It is the starting line. We now get to create the next chapter of American history together.

Why We Do Not Celebrate Columbus Day

Shane Claiborne

October 12, 2020

Books, Creation & Environment, General

Christopher Columbus may have been a daring adventurer... but he is not someone we want our kids to think of as a hero or role model. A growing number of cities are no longer celebrating Columbus Day, sw...

Jesus Isn’t on the Ballot. That Doesn’t Mean Christians Can Opt Out.

Shane Claiborne

September 14, 2020

General, Politics, Theology

We had some solid ideas for serious change in America back then. Like putting the Amish in charge of Homeland Security and melting all of our weapons into garden tools and enacting the biblical year of Jubilee, where property is redistributed and financial debts are forgiven. We were dead serious about some of those ideas (and still are). A lot has changed

Maybe It’s Time to Rethink the Second Amendment

A Former Confederate State Just Voted To Abolish Its Death Penalty

Is Killing Lisa Montgomery the Best Version of Justice We Have?

La’s Skid Row Doesn’t Need Sean Feucht’s ‘Revival’

God’s Up to Something: Laboring in Expectation

William Barr and the Politics of Death

A New Chapter in the American Experiment

Why We Do Not Celebrate Columbus Day

Jesus Isn’t on the Ballot. That Doesn’t Mean Christians Can Opt Out.

Why I Left and Why I Stayed

‘Go and Do Likewise’: Pursuing the Biblical Call to Justice

Hatred Toward Asian Americans is Not a New Evil

No ‘Normal’ Way to Heal

Gather Round the Forge (An Excerpt from Beating Guns)

RLC Network Shane Claiborne