Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."
Shane ClaiborneI wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.
Shane ClaiborneThe monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.
Shane ClaiborneWe might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.
Shane ClaiborneWe see God all the time here. People only hear bad things about our neighborhood. Kensington is known as the badlands. I always say you have to be careful when you call a place the badlands because that is exactly what they said about Nazareth. Nothing good can come from there. I think we see God in the margins.
Shane Claiborne