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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).
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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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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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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
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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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I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.
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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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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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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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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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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 wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.
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