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The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

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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Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.
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The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.
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Jesus still has a really great reputation and the Spirit is still moving. I've got a lot of hope for a generation that takes Jesus seriously, once again.
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In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.
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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.
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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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Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
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God doesn't want to change the world without you.
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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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Rather than finding the devil out there, we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.
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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.
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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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There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.
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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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Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
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We've heard from people all around the world, telling us that this is their reality. People need a way to connect the sometimes really hard reality in which they wake up each morning with the movement of the Spirit.
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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
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I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.
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