There are some - called 'death fatigue' - people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“We have not shown the world another way of doing life. Christians pretty much live like everybody else; they just sprinkle a… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Death of Someone Killed in the Neighborhood Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world. Amen. Have mercy on… — 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
All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Lord, as the seasons turn, creation teaches us of grief, patience, and renewal. Make us good students of these rhythms that we… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When you look at the Bible, and I read the Bible very seriously, for a lot of my life, I believed the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more… — 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
I found that the death penalty - and I'm not a hot-button issue person, you know, I'm not a single issue person … — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country; Iran, Iraq, Saudi… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
A lot of times people say whatever the government touches, they don't do that well, so why would we trust them with… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Leo the Great preached, “Truly wondrous is the whole chronicle of the incarnation. From the time when Christ came, the ancient slavery… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“It is written in the Didache, “There are two ways, one of life and one of death, but a great difference between… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
So even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst.… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Lord, we know that you will come again in glory to raise the living and the dead. Resurrect us now from the… — 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
