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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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 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 more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.
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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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The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.
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The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
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