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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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We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.
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Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.
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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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Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.
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I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers.
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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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The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.
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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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I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.
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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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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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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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Whenever folks say radical Christianity is a phase of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.
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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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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
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For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And 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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Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.
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To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.
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We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.
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