Shane Claiborne, Author at Religion News Service https://religionnews.com Driving essential conversation about how religion and beliefs shape us and our world. Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:57:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://religionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Favicon-100x100.png Shane Claiborne, Author at Religion News Service https://religionnews.com 32 32 The Democrats need to be done with death https://religionnews.com/2024/08/27/the-democrats-need-to-be-done-with-death/ https://religionnews.com/2024/08/27/the-democrats-need-to-be-done-with-death/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:56:44 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4163600 (RNS) — In a surprise move, the Democrats quietly removed abolishing the death penalty from the party platform.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/08/27/the-democrats-need-to-be-done-with-death/feed/ 0 I’m an evangelical against Trump … and genocide https://religionnews.com/2024/08/20/im-an-evangelical-against-trump-and-genocide/ https://religionnews.com/2024/08/20/im-an-evangelical-against-trump-and-genocide/#respond Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:00:03 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4162818 (RNS) — Like many Christians, I find myself conflicted this election season.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/08/20/im-an-evangelical-against-trump-and-genocide/feed/ 0 God did not save Donald Trump https://religionnews.com/2024/07/15/god-did-not-save-donald-trump/ https://religionnews.com/2024/07/15/god-did-not-save-donald-trump/#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:28:54 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4157488 (RNS) — Did God save the former president, but not those who died instead?

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/07/15/god-did-not-save-donald-trump/feed/ 0 In pro-life, pro-gun Tennessee, children are safer in the womb than in school https://religionnews.com/2023/03/31/in-pro-life-pro-gun-tennessee-children-are-safer-in-the-womb-than-in-school/ https://religionnews.com/2023/03/31/in-pro-life-pro-gun-tennessee-children-are-safer-in-the-womb-than-in-school/#respond Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:41:58 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4087133 (RNS) — Guns are now the leading cause of death among children and teens throughout the country.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2023/03/31/in-pro-life-pro-gun-tennessee-children-are-safer-in-the-womb-than-in-school/feed/ 0 To the Christian nationalists who attacked the Capitol in Jesus’ name https://religionnews.com/2023/01/06/to-the-christian-nationalists-who-attacked-the-capitol-in-jesus-name/ https://religionnews.com/2023/01/06/to-the-christian-nationalists-who-attacked-the-capitol-in-jesus-name/#respond Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:24:06 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4075866 (RNS) — Don't let us abuse our Christian love in the pursuit of political power.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2023/01/06/to-the-christian-nationalists-who-attacked-the-capitol-in-jesus-name/feed/ 0 Greeting the Prince of Peace 10 years after Sandy Hook https://religionnews.com/2022/12/22/greeting-the-prince-of-peace-10-years-after-sandy-hook/ https://religionnews.com/2022/12/22/greeting-the-prince-of-peace-10-years-after-sandy-hook/#respond Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:01:06 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4073970 (RNS) — The Christmas season makes room for commemorations of violence done against the innocent.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2022/12/22/greeting-the-prince-of-peace-10-years-after-sandy-hook/feed/ 0 It’s been a week since the Club Q shooting. Let’s not move on. https://religionnews.com/2022/11/28/its-been-a-week-since-the-club-q-shooting-lets-not-move-on/ https://religionnews.com/2022/11/28/its-been-a-week-since-the-club-q-shooting-lets-not-move-on/#respond Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:00:01 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4004040 (RNS) — The LGBTQ community continues to bear a disproportionate amount of hateful gun violence in America.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2022/11/28/its-been-a-week-since-the-club-q-shooting-lets-not-move-on/feed/ 0 America is exceptional — in its addiction to violence and war https://religionnews.com/2022/04/04/martin-luther-king-bernice-king-beyond-vietnam-america-is-exceptional-in-its-addiction-to-violence-and-war/ https://religionnews.com/2022/04/04/martin-luther-king-bernice-king-beyond-vietnam-america-is-exceptional-in-its-addiction-to-violence-and-war/#respond Mon, 04 Apr 2022 20:22:47 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3964473 (RNS) — It's been 55 years, but Martin Luther King's historic speech, 'Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,' rings out as true as ever. To our shame.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2022/04/04/martin-luther-king-bernice-king-beyond-vietnam-america-is-exceptional-in-its-addiction-to-violence-and-war/feed/ 0 Guns as holiday photo props: The real war on Christmas https://religionnews.com/2021/12/23/guns-as-holiday-photo-props-the-real-war-on-christmas/ https://religionnews.com/2021/12/23/guns-as-holiday-photo-props-the-real-war-on-christmas/#respond Thu, 23 Dec 2021 21:18:36 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3948272 (RNS) — Never would I have foreseen photos of Christmas-clad children holding assault rifles as an appropriate way of honoring the Prince of Peace.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2021/12/23/guns-as-holiday-photo-props-the-real-war-on-christmas/feed/ 0 Buddy Stouffer’s execution was the last of 2021. Will it be the last to be proved an error? https://religionnews.com/2021/12/14/buddy-stouffers-execution-error-death-penalty-julius-jones-oklahoma/ https://religionnews.com/2021/12/14/buddy-stouffers-execution-error-death-penalty-julius-jones-oklahoma/#respond Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:08:50 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3946367 (RNS) — For every nine executions, there is one exoneration.

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