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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.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!
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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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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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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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