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To have suffered. . . sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

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Shane Claiborne

That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.

Community, Creating, Critique, Distance, Reconciled, Services
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Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

Christian, Perhaps, Safety, Suffering Of Others

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. "

Attention, Banner, Beginning, Men, Monday, Sunday

We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you hold them with open hands. The mark of the early church was that they began sharing and it said there were no needy persons among them. They ended poverty as they created this new loving community.

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We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep.

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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.

Christian, Donkey, Elephant, God, Icon, Stars
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