Shane Claiborne is a best-selling author, renowned activist, sought-after speaker, and self-proclaimed “recovering sinner.” Shane writes and speaks around the world about peacemaking, social justice, and Jesus, and is the author of several books, including “The Irresistible Revolution,” “Jesus for President,” “Executing Grace,” “Beating Guns,” and his newest book, “Rethinking Life (to be released in Feb 2023).” He is the visionary leader of The Simple Way in Philadelphia and co-director of Red Letter Christians. His work has been featured in Fox News, Esquire, SPIN, TIME, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and CNN.
Contributions
- April 26, 2024: Response to: “A Call for Repentance: An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians”
- April 4, 2024: Highlights from “MLK 55 Years Later: Can the Church Study War No More?” 2022 Event
- April 7, 2024: Good Trouble on Good Friday, Part 2
- April 3, 2024: Good Trouble on Good Friday
- July 16, 2024: God Did Not Save Donald Trump
- August 27, 2023: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s visit with Shane Claiborne in Philly
- August 21, 2023: Prophetic Peacemaking: Closing Plenary at the Parliament of the World’s Religions (Chicago 2023)
- July 1, 2023: “God so loved the World”
- June 9, 2023: Statement on the Church of Uganda’s support for Anti-Homosexuality Act | The Archbishop of Canterbury
- April 2, 2023: Palm Sunday Reflection
- March 31, 2023: Christ, Not Guns: A Reflection on the Nashville Shooting
- February 7, 2023: Launching TODAY! Shane Claiborne’s “Rethinking Life”
- January 31, 2023: Gandhi and Coretta Scott King: A Short Tribute for Two Heroes
- January 6, 2023: To the Christian Nationalists Who Attacked the Capitol in Jesus’ Name
- December 22, 2022: Greeting the Prince of Peace 10 Years After Sandy Hook
- December 1, 2022: It’s been a week since the Club Q shooting. Let’s not move on.
- June 23, 2022: Sharletta Evans: Pioneer of Restorative Justice (Excerpt from Beating Guns)
- June 13, 2022: Praying at the NRA Convention
- May 10, 2022: To Affirm the Death Penalty Is to Reject the Christian Gospel
- April 4, 2024: America is exceptional — in its addiction to violence and war
- April 4, 2022: Highlights from “MLK 55 Years Later: Can the Church Study War No More?” Event
- March 3, 2022: Stations of the Cross Illustrated by Tennessee Men on Death Row
- February 14, 2022: A Tribute to Steve Schapiro
- January 10, 2022: Buddy Stouffer’s Execution Was the Last of 2021. Will It Be the Last to Be Proved an Error?
- January 3, 2022: Remembering the Insurrection
- December 14, 2021: The New War on Christmas
- January 10, 2022: Buddy Stouffer’s Execution Was the Last of 2021. Will It Be the Last to Be Proved an Error?
- November 23, 2021: Julius Jones was spared by a governor who prayed. Let’s all now pray to end the death penalty.
- August 31, 2021: The New American Revival: Christian Nationalism’s ‘Delta Variant’
- May 26, 2021: Why We’re Glad Our Publisher Isn’t Backing The ‘God Bless The USA’ Bible
- March 25, 2021: Maybe It’s Time to Rethink the Second Amendment
- February 6, 2021: A Former Confederate State Just Voted To Abolish Its Death Penalty
- January 11, 2021: Is Killing Lisa Montgomery the Best Version of Justice We Have?
- January 1, 2021: La’s Skid Row Doesn’t Need Sean Feucht’s ‘Revival’
- December 16, 2020: God’s Up to Something: Laboring in Expectation
- December 10, 2020: Midwives of a New World
- November 19, 2020: William Barr and the Politics of Death
- November 9, 2020: A New Chapter in the American Experiment
- October 12, 2020: Why We Do Not Celebrate Columbus Day
- September 14, 2020: Jesus Isn’t on the Ballot. That Doesn’t Mean Christians Can Opt Out.
- August 14, 2020: The Strange Theology That Rejects Masks but Embraces Guns
- August 6, 2020: Federal Executions are One More Example of Trump Administration Overreach
- June 3, 2020: Trusting Systems With the Irreversible Power of Death
- April 5, 2020: How the War on Christmas Became the War on Easter
- March 14, 2020: Spiritual Connectedness Amid Social Distancing
- February 18, 2020: Will the Real Pro-Life Political Party Please Stand Up?
- January 27, 2020: Announcing our new Interim Executive Director
- January 22, 2020: When Worship Is Resistance: Hymn for the 81%
- January 8, 2020: The Defiant Hope of ‘Just Mercy’
- January 3, 2020: Red Letter Christians Lament the Escalating Violence with Iran
- December 4, 2019: The Red Letter Marketplace
- October 29, 2019: Is Jesus King of Kanye’s Bank Account?
- October 9, 2019: Let’s Not Ask Botham Jean’s Family to Choose Forgiveness over Justice
- September 30, 2019: It’s Revival Time!
- September 6, 2019: Ted Cruz Takes Alyssa Milano to Bible Study — with an NRA Edition of the Bible
- July 31, 2019: America Doesn’t Need More Death
- July 29, 2019: A Revolution of Love with RLC UK
- May 23, 2019: Washing the Blood Off Our Hands
- May 9, 2019: Will Grace Prevail as Tennessee Execution Looms?
- November 16, 2018: Don’t Sleep Through the Revolution
- November 6, 2018: Vote for Life & Love
- November 2, 2018: Christians Can’t Allow the Bible Belt to Be the ‘Death Belt’
- August 30, 2018: When Christians Sell Out Christians for Political Power
- August 7, 2018: Christians Are Why the Death Penalty Lives On
- June 27, 2018: We Will Not Cooperate
- May 19, 2018: Praying with Our Feet
- December 24, 2023: The Real Meaning of Christmas — God Entered the Crap
- September 22, 2017: A Black Man Convicted by a Racist Juror Is About to Be Executed
- August 30, 2017: The Twisted Theology of White Supremacy: ‘We Light the Cross’
- August 9, 2017: August 9th: A Day of Repentance?
- July 17, 2017: The Holy Tradition of Going to Jail for Jesus
- June 23, 2017: The Power of Corporate Courage
- May 3, 2017: Jesus (Not Trump) Speaks at Liberty Graduation
- April 7, 2017: Easter in Arkansas
- March 3, 2017: The Death Penalty on Trial
- February 20, 2017: Donald Trump Is Not My President
- January 25, 2017: Terry Edwards & Unequal Justice in America
- January 20, 2017: Going to Jail for Jesus and Justice
- January 11, 2017: How Jesus Confronts Dylann Roof: Making Capital Punishment History
- December 5, 2016: The Glory of the Lord at Standing Rock
- November 21, 2016: We Can Live Without the Death Penalty
- November 9, 2016: A New Home for Homeless Christians
- October 14, 2016: Join Us Today to Help End the Death Penalty
- September 14, 2016: Cancelling Executions in Texas (and Everywhere Else)
- September 12, 2016: Mother Teresa: Saint and Ordinary Radical
- September 9, 2016: Life Lines from Death Row
- August 19, 2016: In the Name of Jesus, Stop Executions
- August 13, 2016: Common Prayer: Making Liturgy Dance
- June 2, 2016: Mercy for Dylan Roof?
- May 13, 2016: Beating Guns in Memory of Trayvon Martin
- April 22, 2016: Death By Blackness?
- April 21, 2016: Red, White & Blue People
- December 23, 2010: Shane Claiborne: The Christian Industrial Complex
- December 31, 2010: A New Year’s Invitation: Bring in 2011 with the Youth of Afghanistan
- February 6, 2011: Confusing Our Kids
- February 15, 2011: Bombs, Cookies And The Cross
- February 28, 2011: What Would Jesus Cut? Bread vs. Bombs
- March 24, 2011: Give to Uncle Sam What Is Uncle Sams: Tax Season War Resistance
- April 12, 2011: My Letter to the IRS
- April 21, 2011: Death Be Not Proud: The Easter Gospel of Non-Violence
- April 25, 2011: Jubilee on Wall Street: Reimagining God's Vision in Action
- June 1, 2011: The Emerging Church Brand: The Good, the Bad, and the Messy
- June 9, 2011: "Oh Say Can You See": Learning to Disagree in Love
- June 13, 2011: Pentecost Sunday and Another Manic Monday
- July 4, 2011: This July 4th, Let's Celebrate Inter-dependence Day!
- July 7, 2011: A Desperate Need for Imagination
- August 13, 2011: What if Jesus Meant All That Stuff?
- August 15, 2011: Jesus, Bombs, and Ice Cream
- August 31, 2011: Hurricane Irene and the Wrath of God
- September 17, 2011: Celebrating the Interruption of Death
- October 4, 2011: St. Francis, Pray for Us
- October 25, 2011: A Devotion for Wall Street
- October 28, 2011: Moving Money: Investing in a New World
- November 11, 2011: When Soldiers Become Saints (WITH VIDEO)
- December 20, 2011: A Season for Mischief and Conspiracy: A New Take on Christmas Charity
- December 24, 2011: The Christian Industrial Complex
- January 5, 2012: 12 Hopes for 2012
- January 14, 2012: A few highlights coming in 2012. . .
- February 2, 2012: Collateral Murder and Preemptive Love
- February 2, 2012: Dorothy Day the "Great Reformer"?
- February 13, 2012: I Apologize for Inaccurate Statistics on US Gov't War Spending
- February 14, 2012: Exorcise Wall Street
- February 16, 2012: Is There Such Thing as a Good CEO? (VIDEO)
- February 17, 2012: Occupy Nonviolence: Not Flesh and Blood
- March 17, 2012: An Unholy Wall in the Holy Land
- March 21, 2012: It's (Almost) Illegal to Feed Those without Homes in Philadelphia
- April 23, 2012: Practicing Resurrection: Turning Vacant Lots Into Gardens in Philadelphia
- April 26, 2012: Oh Yeah! Connecticut Abolished the Death Penalty
- April 30, 2012: See you on the other side Chuck Colson (VIDEO)
- July 23, 2012: The Myth of Redemptive Violence
- July 28, 2012: Happy Birthday Clarence!
- August 6, 2012: Lamenting and Learning from Hiroshima
- September 12, 2012: Big Beasts and Little Prophets: Activists Cooling Down the War Machine With Holy Water
- October 1, 2012: Ku Klux Clowns in East Tennessee
- October 30, 2012: How Are We Political? A Dialogue between Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne
- November 2, 2012: Interrupting Inequality — from Wall Street to Your Street
- November 5, 2012: Jesus for President 2012
- December 15, 2012: I Found Peace in Kabul
- December 24, 2012: What Would Jesus Say to the NRA?
- January 3, 2013: 13 Hopes for 2013
- January 4, 2013: Charging into 2013 with the Saints
- January 22, 2013: A Dialogue on What it Means to be Pro-Life
- February 19, 2013: Building a Better World… One Home at a Time
- March 1, 2013: RAWtools: AK47s into Farm Tools
- March 11, 2013: Two Afghan Kids Killed by NATO Troops
- March 15, 2013: Just In: Maryland to Abolish Death Penalty!
- March 22, 2013: Remembering Gordon Cosby, a Secret Legend
- March 25, 2013: Update: Duane Buck on Death Row
- March 29, 2013: Taking Good Friday Liturgy to the Streets
- April 29, 2013: Remember Guantanamo Bay?
- May 6, 2013: Execution Alert: Willie Jerome Manning
- May 8, 2013: EXECUTION HALTED: Willie Jerome Manning
- June 20, 2013: BREAKING: Explosion in Kabul near Afghan Peace Volunteers Home
- July 12, 2013: It's Desperate in Guantanamo
- July 12, 2013: EXECUTION ALERT: Warren Lee Hill
- August 6, 2013: Bill Pelke wants the best for his Grandmother's Killer, Paula Cooper
- August 7, 2013: Hiroshima Witness in DC
- August 15, 2013: Beating AK47s into Shovels
- September 5, 2013: Shane Claiborne's Statement on Syria
- September 6, 2013: Happy Birthday Publix!
- October 2, 2013: ACT NOW: October Executions
- October 4, 2013: Remembering Francis
- October 10, 2013: Afghanistan 12 Years Later: Recommended Reading
- October 22, 2013: Bringing America Back to Life
- October 30, 2013: Children Steamroll Weapons in Iraq
- November 11, 2013: Feasting Martin of Tours on Veterans Day
- November 24, 2013: Two Dozen Evangelical Christian Leaders: "Stop Duane Buck's Execution"
- November 29, 2013: Shane Claiborne Celebrates Buy Nothing Day
- December 30, 2013: Bono, Kensington, and the Caroling Angels
- January 1, 2014: 14 Hopes for 2014
- January 17, 2014: Walmart Joins the Fair Food Program with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
- January 22, 2014: Shane Claiborne reflects on the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
- February 13, 2014: Remembering the Amiriyah Shelter Massacre in Iraq
- February 14, 2014: Happy Saint Valentine's Day
- March 5, 2014: Fat Tuesday and Skinny Wednesday
- March 12, 2014: HUGE NEWS: Glenn Ford released after 30 years on Death Row
- March 13, 2014: The First Year of the Pope’s Revolution
- April 25, 2014: TN Death Row Invites Governor to Pray with Them
- April 28, 2014: URGENT ALERT: Stop the Electric Chair in Tennessee
- May 8, 2014: An Announcement from Shane Claiborne
- May 12, 2014: If It Weren’t for Jesus, I Might be Pro-Death Too
- May 23, 2014: It's a Sad Day in Tennessee: the Electric Chair is Back
- June 17, 2014: Marching Through Death’s Desert
- August 6, 2014: The Chaplain who Blessed the Hiroshima Bombers, Repents
- August 26, 2014: Pilgrimage to Ferguson
- September 14, 2014: A Nonviolent Uprising
- October 2, 2014: A New Sanctuary Movement to Stop Deportations
- November 6, 2014: A New Conversation on the Death Penalty
- November 20, 2014: Blessed are the Housekeepers
- December 9, 2014: Naming Injustice
- December 21, 2014: Covert Carolers: A Little Christmas Mischief
- January 2, 2015: 15 Hopes for 2015
- February 4, 2015: Checking Pulse on the Death Penalty
- February 27, 2015: Go & Sin No More: What Kelly Gissendaner Can Teach Us About Grace
- March 2, 2015: The Gospel of Kelly Gissendaner
- April 2, 2015: Holy Week in an Unholy World
- April 30, 2015: The Myth of Trickle-Down Change
- May 19, 2015: Death Has Lost Its Sting
- June 29, 2015: What To Do With My Confederate Flag?
- September 15, 2015: Why Philly is the Perfect Place for the Pope to Denounce the Death Penalty
- October 3, 2015: America’s Gun and Heart Problem
- October 15, 2015: Bombing Hospitals
- October 20, 2015: One Small Step for Evangelicals, One Giant Leap for the Abolition of the Death Penalty
- January 5, 2016: 16 Hopes for 2016
- February 16, 2016: O Amiriyah: A Lament After 25 Years
- March 1, 2016: A Gift for Trump Supporters
- January 27, 2024: Dr. Jeff Hood in conversation with Shane Claiborne about Kenneth Smith’s Execution
- November 17, 2023: Evangelical Appeal to Moral Case for Cease-fire
- January 11, 2024: Dialogue on the Middle East, Part 3
- January 10, 2024: Dialogue on the Middle East, Part 2
- January 9, 2024: Dialogue on the Middle East, Part 1
- February 29, 2024: A Tribute to Constantine
- January 31, 2024: ‘The Bible belt is a death belt’ Why Christians must drop the death penalty
- January 28, 2024: We Theologized Hate
- January 2, 2024: Development Without Displacement
- December 27, 2017: The Real Meaning of Christmas — God Entered the Crap
- December 7, 2023: Do you know the real St. Nick?
- October 10, 2023: A Word from the Holy Land: Global Immersion
- October 4, 2023: Brother Francis
- October 4, 2023: St. Francis, Pray for Us