“few years ago, the Barna Group, a prominent research company, went to every state in the US and asked young non-Christians what… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Repentance, rebirth, and conversion were exchanged for cheap grace, and the integrity of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination.… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“As French theologian Jacques Ellul once said, “Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Fourth-century preacher John Chrysostom said, “This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live, — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“I remain convinced to this day that if we continue to lose young people in the church, it won’t be because we… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“I’m not ready to walk on water, but I’m also not ready to let the televangelists and prosperity preachers hijack the supernatural… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“It’s not always a bad thing to struggle. In fact, if you want to find the church alive, you look at places… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Desmond Tutu, a South African bishop and leader in the movement to end apartheid, said, “I don’t preach a social gospel; I… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Now I think ultimately our hope is certainly that people can feel and taste the goodness of God and to find the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning out… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There are some - called 'death fatigue' - people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know - what crime was committed and what is the punishment for that… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Mother Theresa said it is not how much we give that is important but how much love you put into doing it. So it… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself climbing the ladder of success, be careful or else on your way up you might pass Jesus on his way… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together.… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
