Peace & Nonviolence

Reflections from a Recovering Christian Nationalist Leading to the Anniversary of January 6th

January 4, 2022

I didn’t know it at the time, but I was being thoroughly discipled in Christian Nationalism: the idolatrous entangling of God and country for the sake of power.

Remembering the Insurrection

Shane Claiborne

January 2, 2022

Peace & Nonviolence, Politics

It was a terrible day for America and a terrible day for all of us who love Jesus.

Subversive Peace for this Christmas Season

Joel Jackson

December 24, 2021

General, Peace & Nonviolence, Theology

It is to this group of social outcasts that God chooses to make an announcement of astonishingly good news—good news in which God declares a true peace that subverts the ways of the Empire.

A Ride for the Common Good

Joel Simpson

December 22, 2021

Immigration & Refugees, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics

These are lies that feed our fear of strangers, of non-white bodies, and of people who are poor and from poor countries.

A Here-and-Not-Yet Gospel of Peace

Anna Kelly

December 20, 2021

Books, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice

Too often, we have numbed the aches and groans of the world in a false peace that seeks to resolve and explain away our neighbor’s pain (or worse yet, to blame them for it).

The New War on Christmas

Shane Claiborne

December 14, 2021

Gun Violence, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice

This week also marks the 9th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting (December 14), one of those all-too-familiar moments when our country said, “Never again”… and then let it happen again and again.

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

Shane Claiborne

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...

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.