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 20 hours 49 min 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 2 days 23 hours 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 2 weeks 2 days 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...
Posted by Shane Claiborne 4 weeks 2 days ago
12. Do something really nice – that no one knows about.11. Spend more money on other people than I spend on myself. Love my neighbor as I love myself. And love myself as I love my neighbor.10....
Posted by Shane Claiborne 12 weeks 17 hours ago
“I wore chains just like these for over six years, a burden too great to bear for many like me, who stood ready to do violence in the name of the American people and way of life. In Genesis, Cain was...
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.
