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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.

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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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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The future of the church is also about looking back and looking at where we see these wonderful renewals and what we can learn from the early church. I think it is a really exciting time where Phyllis Tickle said every few hundred years the church needs a rummage sale where we can get rid of some of the clutter.
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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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When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.
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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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One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.
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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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Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.
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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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The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
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