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To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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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Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.
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There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.
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It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.
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There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
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We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
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I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.
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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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My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.
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I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.
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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
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I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.
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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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There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
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We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
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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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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
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