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The irresistible revolution : living as an ordinary radical
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The irresistible revolution : living as an ordinary radical

Author: Shane Claiborne
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Shane Claiborne
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Shane Claiborne
ISBN: 0310266300 9780310266303
OCLC Number: 62172641
Description: 367 p. ; 18 cm.
Contents: When Christianity was still safe --
Resurrecting church --
In search of a Christian --
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 1 : local revolutions and ordinary radicals --
Appendix 2 : marks of a new monasticism --
Appendix 3 : to Iraq.
Responsibility: Shane Claiborne.
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Abstract:

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.--Publisher description.

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