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We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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 a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.
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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 question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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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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There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.
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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 setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
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It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to victims families. We can do all sorts of creative ways of healing the pain that people have done by channeling the energy and resources to other more redemptive forms of justice.
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I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.
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This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.
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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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All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.
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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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Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.
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