Shane Claiborne
Shane Claiborne
Shane Claiborneis a Christian activist and author who is a leading figure in the New Monasticism movement and one of the founding members of the intentional community, the Simple Way, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Claiborne is also a social activist, advocating for nonviolence and service to the poor. He is the author of the book, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth11 July 1975
CountryUnited States of America
Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.
Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.
And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.
Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.
Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.
If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.
Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.
Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it.
God doesn't want to change the world without you.
As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.
One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.
Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.