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It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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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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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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When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.
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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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A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.
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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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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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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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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
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Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.
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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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I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.
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Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.
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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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