We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.
Shane ClaiborneIf you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.
Shane ClaiborneJesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
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 Claiborne