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A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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I say let's be idealists. Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see (Hebrews 11:1).
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Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.
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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
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But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.
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Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning they connected theology with what they were doing. They put a banner on the front of the cathedral that said, How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday.
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It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.
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If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.
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Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.
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We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.
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