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Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Eastern Tennessee
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Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
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I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.
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The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.
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We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
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There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.
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What the Black lives matter movement is doing is they are making it personal. They are making it hash tagged, exposing the racial injustice that continues to haunt our country in a way that you can't ignore. There is power in injustice becoming personal.
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One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.
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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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We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
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The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.
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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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We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
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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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