It's Impossible To Separate Our Contemporary Practice Of The Death Penalty From Our History Around Race And Slavery, And Specifically, Lynching. Where Lynchings Were Happening 100 Years Ago Is Where Executions Are Happening Today. And That's A Haunting And Eerie Thing.

-Shane Claiborne

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It's Impossible To Separate Our Contemporary Practice

Shane Claiborne

It's Impossible To Separate Our Contemporary Practice Of The Death Penalty From Our History Around Race And Slavery, And Specifically, Lynching. Where Lynchings Were Happening 100 Years Ago Is Where Executions Are Happening Today. And That's A Haunting And Eerie Thing.

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Race

Lynching

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There Are Congregations On Nearly Every Corner. I'm Not Sure We Need More Churches. What We Need Is A Church. I Say One Church Is Better Than Fifty. I Have Tried To Remove The Plural Form Churches From My Vocabulary, Training Myself To Think Of The Church As Christ Did, And As The Early Christians Did. The Metaphors For Her Are Always Singular - A Body, A Bride. I Heard One Gospel Preacher Say It Like This, As He Really Wound Up And Broke A Sweat: "we've Got To Unite Ourselves As One Body. Because Jesus Is Coming Back, And He's Coming Back For A Bride Not A Harem.

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Jesus

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