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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.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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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We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
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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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It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!
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As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.
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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
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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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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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We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
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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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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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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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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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We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
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I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice  -  it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives  -  there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.
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We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.
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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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To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.
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But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.
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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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