can i just say that the irresistible revolution by shane claiborne is an amazing book!? i'm currently on my 2nd read of it (that must say something...it doesn't even have pictures and i'm reading it again) and discovering new things within it, new feelings towards situations he encounters and new ways to live them out in my life. i don't usually recommend books to people, because i don't want them annoyed with me if they don't like my reading selection, but i guarantee that this one will be enjoyed by all, or your money back*. but as levar burton from reading rainbow use to say, "but you don't have to take my word for it".
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. "If there is such a thing as a disarming radical, 30-year-old Claiborne is it. A former Tennessee Methodist and born-again, high school prom king, Claiborne is now a founding member of one of a growing number of radical faith communities. His is called the Simple Way, located in a destitute neighborhood of Philadelphia. It is a house of young believers, some single, some married, who live among the poor and homeless. They call themselves "ordinary radicals" because they attempt to live like Christ and the earliest converts to Christianity, ignoring social status and unencumbered by material comforts. Claiborne's chatty and compelling narrative is magnetic—his stories (from galvanizing a student movement that saved a group of homeless families from eviction to reaching Mother Teresa herself from a dorm phone at 2 a.m.) draw the reader in with humor and intimacy, only to turn the most common ways of practicing religion upside down. He somehow skewers the insulation of suburban living and the hypocrisy of wealthy churches without any self-righteous finger pointing. "The world," he says, "cannot afford the American dream." Claiborne's conviction, personal experience and description of others like him are a clarion call to rethink the meaning of church, conversion and Christianity; no reader will go away unshaken."
*but not from me, go complain from the bookstore you bought it from. and seriously, there's no way this book won't blow you away.
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i'm currently on my first (of many i'm sure) reads of this book, and i could not agree with you more. This book is fantastical. How do you just dial a number and freaking mother teresa answers! And to go to a country filled with people who just want love. Not money, not opinions, not funny jokes, just pure Godly love....wow. I am looooving this book!
I'm glad to see that it sparks reactions in us all. God calls to live differently. His new book comes out in a couple days. Jesus for president. Exciting stuff created when someone looks at Jesus and never looks away. Gripping. Thanks Shane, Thanks Jesus, make us realize our need for change.
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