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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.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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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The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
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We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.
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What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?
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God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.
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I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.
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When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.
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That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.
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The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.
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There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.
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Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
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Jesus still has a really great reputation and the Spirit is still moving. I've got a lot of hope for a generation that takes Jesus seriously, once again.
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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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