There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
Shane ClaiborneOnly Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the poor rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.
Shane ClaiborneThe early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.
Shane ClaiborneWe have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.
Shane Claiborne