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We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
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 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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We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
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We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative.
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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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What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?
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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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The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
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Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning they connected theology with what they were doing. They put a banner on the front of the cathedral that said, How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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