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Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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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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Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning they connected theology with what they were doing. They put a banner on the front of the cathedral that said, How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday.
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There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went to study sociology. I like how Karl Barth said we have to read the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other so that our faith doesn't just become a ticket into heaven and a license to ignore the world around us.
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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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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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Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
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