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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.
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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.
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Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.
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This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, those are the top 4, and number 5 is the US. And those are not countries that are known as champions for human rights, you know.
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Rather than finding the devil out there, we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.
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Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.
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Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.
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Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.
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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went to study sociology. I like how Karl Barth said we have to read the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other so that our faith doesn't just become a ticket into heaven and a license to ignore the world around us.
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A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
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[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.
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It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to victims families. We can do all sorts of creative ways of healing the pain that people have done by channeling the energy and resources to other more redemptive forms of justice.
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There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.
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The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.
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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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David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things - they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.
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