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We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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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Whenever folks say radical Christianity is a phase of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.
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Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.
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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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We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.
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Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.
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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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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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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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I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.
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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
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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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