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The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.
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