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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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If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.
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Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.
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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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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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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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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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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
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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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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
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It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.
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Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning they connected theology with what they were doing. They put a banner on the front of the cathedral that said, How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday.
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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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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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The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
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How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.
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Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.
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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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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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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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