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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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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Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.
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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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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 think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.
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I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.
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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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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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It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.
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If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.
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God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.
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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 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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There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
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There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.
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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
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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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The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
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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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