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We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
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If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.
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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 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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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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The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
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It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.
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The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.
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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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There are folks who burn the Koran and hold signs saying, God hates fags and all sorts of sick things - and they often hijack the headlines with hatred. We know that is not what Christ was like.
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It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!
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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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The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.
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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
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Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.
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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
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But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.
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