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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'.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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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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Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.
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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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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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Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
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This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, those are the top 4, and number 5 is the US. And those are not countries that are known as champions for human rights, you know.
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We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
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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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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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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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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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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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Rather than finding the devil out there, we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.
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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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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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