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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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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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Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
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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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God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.
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We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
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It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.
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It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.
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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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I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is in heaven, but God is not limited to use only the Church, or only Christians for that matter.
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The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.
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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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We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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There are folks who burn the Koran and hold signs saying, God hates fags and all sorts of sick things - and they often hijack the headlines with hatred. We know that is not what Christ was like.
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Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.
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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
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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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A lot of times people say whatever the government touches, they don't do that well, so why would we trust them with the power over life and death? Do we really believe the system is that perfect that it won't make any mistakes? You can't reverse these mistakes.
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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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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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