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The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
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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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When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've thrown out their faith, but it's because of their faith they can't reconcile the death penalty with Jesus and their commitment to Jesus.
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I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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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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Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.
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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
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I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice - it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives - there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.
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All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.
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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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To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.
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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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