Shane Claiborne
Shane Claiborne is a Red Letter Christian and a founding partner of The Simple Way community, a radical faith community that lives among and serves the homeless in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. He is the co-author, with Chris Haw, of Jesus for President.
Blog Posts by Shane Claiborne
Posted by Shane Claiborne 1 day 18 hours ago
All the major world religions have an element of self-denial at their core. Jews have Yom Kippur.Muslims have Ramadan.Christians have Lent. In a world filled with clutter, noise, and hustle...
Posted by Shane Claiborne 6 days 13 hours ago
Amidst the recent police violence in Oakland and the sure temptation of some protestors to resort to violence, I wrote this little reflection inviting all Occupiers to a renewed commitment to...
Posted by Shane Claiborne 2 weeks 5 days ago
At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Obama named Dorothy Day as a “great reformer in American history."Who woulda thunk it?This is the same woman J. Edgar Hoover once called a "...
Posted by Shane Claiborne 3 weeks 1 day ago
Today I was catching up on emails and came across two messages that deeply affected me, maybe because I read them back-to-back. The first one is from a friend who helped release the “Collateral...
Posted by Shane Claiborne 5 weeks 23 hours ago
Sometimes folks ask me if I’ve spoken at any conferences that I get excited about. I’ll be speaking more than 150 times this next year in about a dozen countries — at all sorts of events from a...
Articles by Shane Claiborne
I am Emergent and I Don't Fit the Stereotype
by Julie CLawson
Christian activist (and former high school prom king) Shane Claiborne spent his college years in the company of like-minded travelers.
