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There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.
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As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.
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We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.
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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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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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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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I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.
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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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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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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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I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have our hearts broken with the things that break the heart of God. That is part of what it means to be a Christian.
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To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.
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I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.
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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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It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!
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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
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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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A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
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