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Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

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 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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The future of the church is also about looking back and looking at where we see these wonderful renewals and what we can learn from the early church. I think it is a really exciting time where Phyllis Tickle said every few hundred years the church needs a rummage sale where we can get rid of some of the clutter.
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If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.
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God doesn't want to change the world without you.
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It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.
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The death penalty has succeeded in America, not in spite of Christians, but because of us. The Bible Belt is the Death Belt. Wherever Christians are most concentrated is where executions are happening, and that's deeply troubling to me.
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There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.
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Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
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Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.
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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.
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My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.
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There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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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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The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.
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The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.
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The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
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We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
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When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.
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