Ku Klux Clowns in East Tennessee
BY: SHANE CLAIBORNE -- This is the story of one of my favorite flash-mob actions, which happened right here...
Clarence Jordan Never Said, “Nothing can be done.”
Clarence Jordan and Millard Fuller -- Photo Courtesy of Fuller Center for Housing
This Sunday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of farmer and New Testament scholar Clarence Jordan (July 29, 1912...
The Myth of Redemptive Violence
I had a veteran friend once tell me, “The biggest lie I have ever been told is that violence is evil, except in war.” He went on, “My government told me that. My Church told me that. My family told me t...
Sharing Stories at the Wild Goose Festival
cialis orderg" alt="" width="240" height="200" />I’m just back from the in Chatham County, NC. Camp meetings like this have a history in American religion. Like Cane Ridge in the early 19th century, ...
Why I voted for Jesus instead of Obama in the primary
Why I voted for Jesus instead of Obama in the primary…
Because, obviously, President Obama is uncontested during the primary election so nothing is actually on the line by writing in a candidate like Jesu...
Worship and the Poor: The Coming Revival
I just got back from spending about a month in India with my family. We had the opportunity to stay with our friend who runs a children’s home, made up of 48 kids. We were amazed by their faith. Each child ...
The Pollution of Racism: What White People Can Do About Racism
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world (James 1:27).
I love my job with Miss...
Shane Claiborne on Rupert Murdoch: Bible Mogul?
Most people know now that Rupert Murdoch presides over the News Corp media empire, and that he is fighting for his reputation after being forced to sink his scandal-laiden British newspaper News of the World, ...
A Desperate Need for Imagination
The world is desperately in need of imagination.
I will never forget the words of an Iraqi doctor I met while I was in Baghdad as a peacemaker in 2003, protesting the “shock and awe” campaign. As the bombs ...
This July 4th, Let's Celebrate Inter-dependence Day!
Dr. Martin Luther King spoke of us all being bound up in an "inescapable web of mutuality." He talked of how we have encountered half the world by the time we have put on our clothes, brushed our teeth, dr...