Beating Guns, Shane Claiborne
Beating Guns, Shane Claiborne
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Beating Guns
Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence

Author: Shane Claiborne, Michael Martin

Narrator: TBD

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2019


Synopsis

Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. More Americans have died from guns in the US in the last fifty years than in all the wars in American history. With less than 5% of the world's population, the people of the US own nearly half the world's guns. America also has the most annual gun deaths--homicide, suicide, and accidental gun deaths--at 105 per day, or more than 38,000 per year. Some people say it's a heart problem. Others say it's a gun problem. The authors of Beating Guns believe it's both. This book is for people who believe the world doesn't have to be this way. Inspired by the prophetic image of beating swords into plows, Beating Guns provides a provocative look at gun violence in America and offers a clarion call to change our hearts regarding one of the most significant moral issues of our time. Bestselling author, speaker, and activist Shane Claiborne and Michael Martin show why Christians should be concerned about gun violence and how they can be part of the solution. The authors transcend stale rhetoric and old debates about gun control to offer a creative and productive response. Full-color images show how guns are being turned into tools and musical instruments across the nation. Charts, tables, and facts convey the mind-boggling realities of gun violence in America, but as the authors make clear, there is a story behind every statistic. Beating Guns allows victims and perpetrators of gun violence to tell their own compelling stories, offering hope for change and helping us reimagine the world as one that turns from death to life, where swords become plows and guns are turned into garden tools.

About Shane Claiborne

Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and bestselling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He heads up Red Letter Christians, a movement of folks who are committed to living “as if Jesus meant the things he said.” Shane is a champion for grace, which has led him to jail advocating for the homeless, and to places like Iraq and Afghanistan to stand against war. Now, grace fuels his passion to end the death penalty.
Shane’s books include Jesus for President, Red Letter Revolution, Common Prayer, Follow Me to Freedom, Jesus, Bombs, and Ice Cream, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, his classic The Irresistible Revolution, Executing Grace, and Beating Guns. He has been featured in a number of films, including Another World Is Possible and Ordinary Radicals. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Shane speaks over one hundred times a year, nationally and internationally. His work has appeared in Esquire, SPIN, Christianity Today, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and he has been on everything from Fox News and Al Jazeera to CNN and NPR. He’s given academic lectures at Harvard, Princeton, Liberty, Duke, and Notre Dame. 
Shane speaks regularly at denominational gatherings, festivals, and conferences around the globe.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Clif on August 13, 2019

Coauthor Mike Martin is the founder and Executive Director of RAWtools Inc. an organization that partners with communities in an effort to repurpose weapons for productive lifelong purpose. In other words they beat guns into garden tools. It can be a meaningful gesture for persons donating guns that......more

Goodreads review by Trish on July 07, 2019

Shane Clairborne, Christian activist and motivational speaker, and Michael Martin, former Mennonite pastor and founder of RAWtools.com, a company that turns donated weapons into gardening tools, wrote this book about the work they do together. Tired of gun violence in America, the two are traveling......more

Goodreads review by Loring on March 15, 2019

From the outset, it's important to realize that the two authors of Beating Guns(Shane Claiborne of The Simple Way and Michael Martin of RAWtools), are radical Christian pacifists. They rely on an assumption of the universal applicability of scripture, and of Gandhian teachings of nonviolence. Never......more

Goodreads review by Marty on July 07, 2023

Claiborne was one of those authors whom God used to deeply shape me into the person I am today. Shane’s “radical” faith and willingness to say things bluntly and call us to the furthest reaches of the Kingdom was inspiring. I loved reading the well-articulated thoughts of a dreamer and a prophetic v......more

Goodreads review by Joel on January 19, 2019

I come from a denominational background (American Evangelical/Baptist) where it is not uncommon for people to treat the broadest possible interpretation of the Second Amendment (right to bear arms) with practically the same devotion as any of the basic tenets of the faith. Attempts to discuss gun vi......more