Short description
Claiborne has a vision for ordinary radicals ready to change the world with little acts of love. He describes an authentic faith rooted in belief, action, and love and invites readers into a movement of the Spirit that begins inside and extends into a broken world.
Long description
Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the streets and feel like we've made a difference without ever encountering the faces of the suffering masses. In this book, Shane Claiborne describes an authentic faith rooted in belief, action, and love, inviting us into a movement of the Spirit that begins inside each of us and extends into a broken world. Shane's faith led him to dress the wounds of lepers with Mother Teresa, visit families in Iraq amidst bombings, and dump $10,000 in coins and bills on Wall Street to redistribute wealth. Shane lives out this revolution each day in his local neighborhood, an impoverished community in North Philadelphia, by living among the homeless, helping local kids with homework, and "practicing resurrection" in the forgotten places of our world. Shane's message will comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable...but will also invite us into an irresistible revolution. His is a vision for ordinary radicals ready to change the world with little acts of love.
Review
This is the book that will not let me go....this book has called me, and many others, to action, to a different kind of life....if you read it seriously, it may mess with your mind, heart and even your life. -- Youthworker Journal
Table of contents
- Contents Foreword by Jim Wallis Introduction Author's Note
- When Chris
- tianity Was Still Safe
- Resurrecting Church
- In Search of a Chris
- tian
- When Comfort Becomes Uncomfortable
- Another Way of Doing Life
- Economics of Rebirth
- Pledging Allegiance When Kingdoms Collide
- Jesus Made Me Do It!
- Jesus Is for Losers
- Extremists for Love
- Making Revolution Irresistible
- Growing Smaller and Smaller
- Until We Take Over the World
- Crazy but Not Alone Appendix
- Local Revolutions and Ordinary Radicals Appendix
- Marks of a New Monasticism Appendix
- To Iraq