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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.

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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We've heard from people all around the world, telling us that this is their reality. People need a way to connect the sometimes really hard reality in which they wake up each morning with the movement of the Spirit.
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We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.
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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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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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I believe you know Jesus said a doctor doesn't come to the healthy, but the sick, and it's not the righteous but the sinners that I've come for, so I think that that's the scandal of God's love and grace that no one is beyond redemption, and we can see that all through scripture, you know.
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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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Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.
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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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There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.
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Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
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I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
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There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.
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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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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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Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.
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Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
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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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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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