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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.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went to study sociology. I like how Karl Barth said we have to read the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other so that our faith doesn't just become a ticket into heaven and a license to ignore the world around us.
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The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God.
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A lot of times people say whatever the government touches, they don't do that well, so why would we trust them with the power over life and death? Do we really believe the system is that perfect that it won't make any mistakes? You can't reverse these mistakes.
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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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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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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
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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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I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.
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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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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 more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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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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God doesn't want to change the world without you.
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I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have our hearts broken with the things that break the heart of God. That is part of what it means to be a Christian.
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We've heard from people all around the world, telling us that this is their reality. People need a way to connect the sometimes really hard reality in which they wake up each morning with the movement of the Spirit.
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We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.
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That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.
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Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
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