Shane Claiborne
Shane Claiborne
Shane Claiborneis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth11 July 1975
CountryUnited States of America
Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.
It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.
...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.
Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.
Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.
A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.
Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.
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.
In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.
The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.