We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
Shane ClaiborneMother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.
Shane Claibornewe can live without sex, but we cant live without love.
Shane ClaiborneI wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.
Shane ClaiborneThere are some things to die for but none to kill for.
Shane ClaiborneMost good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
Shane ClaiborneTags: inspiration activism
And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed, as Jesus did, they get in trouble. Once we are actually friends with the folks in struggle, we start to ask why people are poor, which is never as popular as giving to charity. One of my friends has a shirt marked with the words of late Catholic bishop Dom Helder Camara: “When I fed the hungry, they called me a saint. When I asked why people are hungry, they called me a communist.” Charity wins awards and applause but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for living out of love that disrupts the social order that calls forth a new world. People are not crucified for helping poor people. People are crucified for joining them.
Shane ClaiborneWhen we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
Shane ClaiborneTags: love
What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?
Shane ClaiborneThe history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle.
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