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I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
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Jesus still has a really great reputation and the Spirit is still moving. I've got a lot of hope for a generation that takes Jesus seriously, once again.
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I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.
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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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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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There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
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This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.
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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 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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It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.
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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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It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to victims families. We can do all sorts of creative ways of healing the pain that people have done by channeling the energy and resources to other more redemptive forms of justice.
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[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.
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For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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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 wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.
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God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.
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I say let's be idealists. Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see (Hebrews 11:1).
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We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
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