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I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.

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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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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It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!
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As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.
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I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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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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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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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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David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.
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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
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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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Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.
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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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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.
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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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