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We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.
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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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God doesn't want to change the world without you.
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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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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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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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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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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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To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.
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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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Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
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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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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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Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
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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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I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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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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[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.
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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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We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.
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