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.
Shane ClaiborneThe more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.
Shane ClaiborneThere is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
Shane ClaiborneBiological 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Shane ClaiborneThe Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways of protecting societies from dangerous people without killing them. And in fact, it's important to remember that much of the world has done away with the death penalty.
Shane Claiborne