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“Ponder a curious fact about the witness of the early Christians in light of our tendency to focus on electoral politics as the weapon…

— Richard Beck

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned…

— Shane Claiborne

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus…

— Shane Claiborne

Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace"…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Looking at the sweep of Christian history, we are often reminded of this message of the transience of human affairs, and, based on that,…

— Philip Jenkins

We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . .…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which underlay the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“Many outsiders clarified that they believe Christians have a right (even an obligation) to pursue political involvement, but they disagree with our methods and…

— David Kinnaman

I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of…

— Anonymous

“When the Apostles were taken away, Christianity did not at once break into portions; yet separate localities might begin to be the scene of…

— John Henry Newman

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and…

— Jon Meacham

This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems,…

— Shane Claiborne