Shane Claiborne Together Quotations

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.