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Shane Claiborne

Shane Claiborne (born July 11, 1975) is a Christian activist and author who is a leading figure in the New Monasticism movement and one of the founding members of the intentional community, the Simple Way, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Claiborne is also a social activist, advocating for nonviolence and service to the poor. He is the author of the book, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical.

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The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.

Feel Good, Good, Neighborhood, Soul, Stuff, Typical

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

Crazy, War, World, Exist

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

Christian, Jesus, Name, Names, Reputation, Things

We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.

Eagles, Faithful, Ironically, Rome, Symbol

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

Changing, Firsts, Recognizing, Steps, World, Wrong

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

Bunch, Money, People, Together, Withholding

We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.

Prayer, Years, Church, 200, Wanting, Actually

There are folks who burn the Koran and hold signs saying, "God hates fags" and all sorts of sick things - and they often hijack the headlines with hatred. We know that is not what Christ was like.

Hate, Hatred, Hijack, Koran, Sick, Things

You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

Argument, Details, Laughing, Learning, Logic, Stories

There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.

Christian, Christians, Heaven, Mind, Minded

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta. "

Calcutta, Everywhere, Eye, Mother, Said, Theresa

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

Death Penalty, Excited, History, Penalties, Penalty

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.

Christian, Difference, Differences, Dinner, Feeding, Home

This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.

Communities, Empire, Forming, Jesus, Kings, Practice

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

Gentle, Hard, Noise, Spirit, Whisper

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

Big, Bigs, Leaving, Misunderstanding, Monastics

What the Black lives matter movement is doing is they are making it personal. They are making it hash tagged, exposing the racial injustice that continues to haunt our country in a way that you can't ignore. There is power in injustice becoming personal.

Black, Continues, Country, Movement, Personal, Tagged

. . . I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.

Believe, Evildoers, Kings, Pledged, Teaching

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.

Ask, Asks, Bless, Make Sense, Sense

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

Mother, Mothers, Systematic, Tears

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