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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Eastern Tennessee
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The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.
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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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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
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To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.
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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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When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.
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How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.
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There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
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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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[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.
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