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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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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Rather than finding the devil out there, we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.
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I believe you know Jesus said a doctor doesn't come to the healthy, but the sick, and it's not the righteous but the sinners that I've come for, so I think that that's the scandal of God's love and grace that no one is beyond redemption, and we can see that all through scripture, you know.
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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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