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The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Eastern Tennessee
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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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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.
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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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The death penalty has succeeded in America, not in spite of Christians, but because of us. The Bible Belt is the Death Belt. Wherever Christians are most concentrated is where executions are happening, and that's deeply troubling to me.
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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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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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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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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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We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.
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Rather than finding the devil out there, we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.
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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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It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!
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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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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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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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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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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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If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.
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