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There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice - it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives - there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.
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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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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
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There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.
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Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.
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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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That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
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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 an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.
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The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
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We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
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The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.
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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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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
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A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
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