我认为这也是一代人试图通过积极地谈论宗教来丰富公共广场的努力。

I think it's also the struggle of a generation trying to enrich the public square with the positive conversation about religion.

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And you never think of those two narratives: one's faith life and one's life in the public square would ever meet.

他们的这两种生活：,宗教生活和在公共场所的生活,从来不会融为一体。

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And what I recognized was first of all, how impoverishing that was spiritually to not be able to bring my faith identity into the public square.

而我意识到,第一，我们精神上很枯竭,因为我们不能将自己的宗教身份,带入公共场所。

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It seems like it's not a news flash that religion is playing an extremely important part in our public square conversations, in our political life, in how we are making decisions on questions of poverty.

这似乎并非一条简讯,宗教发挥着极其重要的作用,在我们在公共场所的谈话中，在我们的政治生活中，在我们如何针对贫困问题做出决策。

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