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There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Eastern Tennessee
Purity
Innocence
Civil
Movement
Rights
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Invigorated
Renewal

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