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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.

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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Restorative
Redemptive
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The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God.
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That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
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Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.
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Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
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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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There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
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I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.
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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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There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
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God doesn't want to change the world without you.
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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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To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.
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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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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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When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.
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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to victims families. We can do all sorts of creative ways of healing the pain that people have done by channeling the energy and resources to other more redemptive forms of justice.
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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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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
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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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