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July 2012

July 11, 2012

What Is Community? Learning from Saint Benedict

Today, July 11th, is the feast of Saint Benedict. On the day when this father...

July 07, 2012

Seeing is Believing: Imagining Heathcare for All

When the Supreme Court ruled last week to uphold legislation that will ensure health care...

July 03, 2012

RIP, Andy Griffith

I never tire of telling people that my family's only real claim to fame is...

July 02, 2012

Clarence Jordan and God’s Movement Today

Just last week I got to visit with my friend Dave Andrews, who lives half...

June 2012

June 25, 2012

Sharing Stories at the Wild Goose Festival

I'm just back from the Wild Goose Festival in Chatham County, NC. Camp meetings like...

June 21, 2012

Saint Benedict on Leadership

Most people today are skeptical of institutions and cynical about leadership. Politicians make promises they...

June 18, 2012

The Gift of Stability

When a sister or brother comes to join the monastic community, Benedict says they must...

June 15, 2012

Longing for Community

Despite the fact that we experience so little of it—indeed, precisely because we lack this...

June 13, 2012

NC Legislature Votes to Preserve Racial Bias

The North Carolina House of Representatives voted yesterday to approve an "amendment" to the Racial...

June 12, 2012

A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals

By Shane Claiborne Something really special happened last weekend. My friend Aaron Niequist, who leads...

June 11, 2012

A School for the World to Come

School is out here in Durham, which means it’s time for summer camp to start...

June 07, 2012

The Gospel of Rutba

Hardly anyone ever visits Rutba House without asking, "So what does Rutba mean?" Once someone...

June 02, 2012

Call to Action: A New Imagination for Justice in America

At the Duke Summer Institute this week, pastors and leaders in reconciliation ministries from 25...

June 01, 2012

Bearing a Word Within

The methodology for the Duke Summer Institute is "Word Made Flesh," as they say it...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

The Gift and Interruption of Reconciliation

I am teaching this week at the Duke Center for Reconciliation's Summer Institute, a gathering...

May 25, 2012

How to Start a Community

Every week, I hear from people throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand...

May 21, 2012

For Every New Book, An Old One

In my freshman "Intro to Christian Spirituality" course at Eastern College, I was assigned Athanasius'...

May 18, 2012

Reviving a Radical Tradition

I love to tell the story about how, in the 1930's, when Dietrich Bonhoeffer was...

May 14, 2012

Dear Class of 2012

The weather was kind this year as SUV's with license plates from New York and...

May 12, 2012

Another Mother for Peace

When Caroline Stevenson's son began to struggle with mental health issues, she did what any...

May 10, 2012

The Re-Settling of America

It's Saturday, and I'm in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the invitation of local Episcopalians to...

May 02, 2012

You Can Help George Win a Van

One year ago this week, as the birds were hatching on our porch and the...

April 2012

April 22, 2012

Confession without Shame

In the desert monastic tradition, women and men who left the city to pray in...

April 17, 2012

Should This Family Be Illegal?

A decade ago, when we moved to Walltown and were getting to know our neighbors,...

April 10, 2012

Jesus is Risen… But He’s Not Here

Easter is the season when Christians make our biggest claim: that death has been defeated,...

April 06, 2012

Staying with Jesus on Good Friday

As Leah and I walked the stations of the cross with our kids this morning,...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Reading the Bible with Trayvon Martin

The constant stream of news this week about Trayvon Martin has re-ignited a national conversation...

March 27, 2012

Saying “Yes” With Mary

I'll admit, I'm an obsessive reader. I like to keep a book on hand for...

March 19, 2012

After Nine Years: Nonviolence in Iraq

Today marks 9 years since the US invasion of Iraq began. I wrote last week...

March 12, 2012

Born Again to Active Nonviolence

At the end of last week, I posted a short story about Angelina Atyam, an...

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