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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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I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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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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If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.
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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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[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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When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.
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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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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
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I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is in heaven, but God is not limited to use only the Church, or only Christians for that matter.
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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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A lot of times people say whatever the government touches, they don't do that well, so why would we trust them with the power over life and death? Do we really believe the system is that perfect that it won't make any mistakes? You can't reverse these mistakes.
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There are folks who burn the Koran and hold signs saying, God hates fags and all sorts of sick things - and they often hijack the headlines with hatred. We know that is not what Christ was like.
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That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
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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 Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
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The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
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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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To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.
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The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.
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I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.
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