Shane Claiborne

Buddy Stouffer’s Execution Was the Last of 2021. Will It Be the Last to Be Proved an Error?

December 14, 2021

Death Penalty, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice

On Thursday (Dec. 9), Oklahoma executed Bigler “Buddy” Stouffer, a 79-year-old deeply committed Christian who has maintained his innocence since being convicted of murder in 1985. It was the last execution sche...

Julius Jones was spared by a governor who prayed. Let’s all now pray to end the death penalty.

Shane Claiborne

November 23, 2021

Death Penalty, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice

The irony cannot be missed. Christians all over the world were praying that a Christian governor would not execute a fellow Christian brother who is almost assuredly innocent.

The New American Revival: Christian Nationalism’s ‘Delta Variant’

Shane Claiborne

August 31, 2021

Global, Politics, Theology

Many will say it’s all about freedom, but it’s really about power.

Why We’re Glad Our Publisher Isn’t Backing The ‘God Bless The USA’ Bible

Shane Claiborne, Lisa Sharon Harper, Soong-Chan Rah, Jemar Tisby and Doug Pagitt

May 26, 2021

Books, Politics, Practical Justice

As authors published by Zondervan, a division of HarperCollins Christian Publishing known for its NIV Bibles, and activists against Christian nationalism, we were alarmed at this news, first reported by Religion Unplugged. We’re delighted today that Zondervan announced it will not support this Bible.

Maybe It’s Time to Rethink the Second Amendment

Shane Claiborne

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.

Buddy Stouffer’s Execution Was the Last of 2021. Will It Be the Last to Be Proved an Error?

Julius Jones was spared by a governor who prayed. Let’s all now pray to end the death penalty.

The New American Revival: Christian Nationalism’s ‘Delta Variant’

Why We’re Glad Our Publisher Isn’t Backing The ‘God Bless The USA’ Bible

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

Joining Pope Francis as We Abolish the Death Penalty

Apocalypse now: how historic floods are unveiling the exploitation of Appalachia

Now more than ever: Let’s get the Equal Rights Amendment finalized

Rev. Don Heath: Oklahoma executions will continue until the people say ‘Stop’

This School Year We Should Get Curious rather than Punitive When it Comes to Kids, All Kids

RLC Network Shane Claiborne