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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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Eastern Tennessee
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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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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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A lot of times people say whatever the government touches, they don't do that well, so why would we trust them with the power over life and death? Do we really believe the system is that perfect that it won't make any mistakes? You can't reverse these mistakes.
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I say let's be idealists. Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see (Hebrews 11:1).
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I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.
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Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.
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God doesn't want to change the world without you.
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This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, those are the top 4, and number 5 is the US. And those are not countries that are known as champions for human rights, you know.
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Whenever folks say radical Christianity is a phase of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.
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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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I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have our hearts broken with the things that break the heart of God. That is part of what it means to be a Christian.
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Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.
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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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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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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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Rather than finding the devil out there, we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.
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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 love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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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 impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.
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