The Myth of Redemptive Violence
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Source: jesushoppedtheatrainif the heart is wild, no fence will keep you.
25. Portland Native who left her heart in Tanzania. Tattoo Collector. Believer in the Seamless Garment. World Citizen. Teacher. Bibliophile. Whimsical. Wild at Heart. Feminist. Dreamer. Karaoke Queen. In process.
1 year ago
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"God spoke to Balaam through a donkey. So I reckon God can also use a tract. But I’m not sure that makes it God’s favorite medium. The best evangelism happens through relationships, through sharing burdens, dreams, pains, and fears. The Gospel spreads like disease—through life, breath, touch, and shared life; it is not so much taught as it is caught. The incarnation is all about God moving into the neighborhood, and joining the human struggle. Perhaps a tract can be our first glimpse of God, and spark some sort of curiosity. But the good news is that God so loved the world that He did not just give us a tract but gave us his Son. And it is this same God who invites us to give our lives away for the sake of others. Jesus spread the Gospel not through force, but through fascination. And we get to do the same."
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Shane Claiborne (via azspot)
I love this. ”Not through force, but through fascination” sums up every single one of my positive experiences with and productive conversations about Christianity.
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This is about the time I feel Rich Mullins is appropriate:
God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since.
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1 year ago
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"May we see in the hands of the oppressors our own hands, and in the faces of the oppressed our own faces. We are made of the same dust and cry the same tears."
- Shane Claiborne
1 year ago
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"Everybody wants a revolution, but nobody wants to do the dishes."
- Shane Claiborne
1 year ago
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"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."
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Shane Claiborne (via irresistiblerevolution)
He quotes Dom Helder Camara last week at his discussion. It’s incredible how, rather than legitimately debate, we commonly sink to vitriol and name calling to invalidate the person with whom we disagree.
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1 year ago
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Went and heard Shane Claiborne speak tonight. His laugh is contagious, and, perhaps because I’m guilty of doing it, I love when people laugh at their own jokes (and they’re actually funny). I ran into another teacher from my school, which was an unexpected surprise, as well as a friend from my freshman year of college who is always a delight to encounter.
I’m a note-taker by nature, though a nonlinear one, which makes it difficult for others to understand since they have to maneuver through the pictures and doodles, but I managed to get some of my favorite ideas from the night. One that I really adored came during the Q&A time when a women stood and asked for Shane to talk further on healing the pain and bridging the gap between the lgbt community and the church, particularly for people like herself who, as a lesbian, was often rejected by any church she came out to. He said, “If you can’t find a home in the church, what has the church become? If you can’t find a friend in me, who am I?”
2 years ago
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"…And the lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like six September 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week."
- Shane Claiborne
2 years ago
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"Just to put things in perspective. Consider this one proposed cut alone — $450 million in contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis. If passed, approximately 10.4 million bed nets that help prevent malaria will not reach people who need them; 6 million treatments for malaria will not be given; 3.7 million people will not be tested for HIV; and 372,000 tests and treatments for tuberculosis will not be administered. I’m not one to place a ton of hope on Capitol Hill, but it does seem all of us could do a little damage control. After all, cutting $3 mosquito nets that can save lives while continuing to spend $200,000 a minute on the military should raise some flags of a different sort. In fact, US military spending is now 56 percent of the world’s total military expenditures and that is more than the military budgets of the next 20 countries in the world combined."
- Shane Claiborne What Would Jesus Cut? Bread vs. Bombs (via changingperspective)
2 years ago
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"But love does not stop at the border. We now have a family that includes but transcends biology and geography. We have family in Iraq, Peru, Afghanistan and Sudan. We have family members who are starving and homeless, dying of AIDS and living in the midst of war."
- Shane Claiborne
2 years ago
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"To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. 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."
2 years ago
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"We must mourn the lives of the soldiers. But with the same passion and outrage, we must mourn the lives of every Iraqi who is lost. They are just as precious, no more, no less. In our rebirth, every life lost in Iraq is just as tragic as a life lost in New York or D.C. And the lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like six September 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week."
- Shane Claiborne
2 years ago
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"Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border."
- Shane Claiborne, the Irresistible Revolution
3 years ago
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“& I think that’s what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.”
—Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution Source: Flickr / jamiemoffett3 years ago
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"I realize the non-violence of the Gospel has not always characterized Christianity. Christians have often been the biggest obstacle to God. Forgive us — for blessing bombs, for the crusades and “holy” wars, for creating an apologetic for torture, for holding signs that say “God hates fags”, starting apocalyptic militias, and blowing up abortion clinics. These things are not the Christianity of Christ. If they are Christianity, it is a Christianity that has grown sick, sick beyond recognition. It does not look like Jesus."
- Shane Claiborne, Death Be Not Proud
