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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.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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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When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've thrown out their faith, but it's because of their faith they can't reconcile the death penalty with Jesus and their commitment to Jesus.
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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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As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.
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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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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.
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I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have our hearts broken with the things that break the heart of God. That is part of what it means to be a Christian.
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I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.
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Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
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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 a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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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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God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.
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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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I say let's be idealists. Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see (Hebrews 11:1).
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The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.
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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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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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