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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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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.
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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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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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My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.
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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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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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I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.
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That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
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There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
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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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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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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
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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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How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.
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Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
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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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