“One thing we have learned from conservative Christian believers and from progressive social activists is that community can be built around a common self-righteousness or around a common brokenness. Both are magnetic and contagious. People are drawn toward folks who have it all together (or have figured out how to look like they do.) People are also drawn toward folks who know they don’t have it all together and are not willing to fake it. Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evil doers and sinners, creating a community of religious super-piety. Christianity can also be built around joining with broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity we have fallen in love with.”

— Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s “Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, p 47 via Tall Monastic Guy