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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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The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.
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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
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I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice - it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives - there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.
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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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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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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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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.
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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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To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.
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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
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One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.
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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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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.
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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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For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And 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.
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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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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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I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.
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