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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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But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.
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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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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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God doesn't want to change the world without you.
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The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.
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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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