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The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical - eBookZondervan / 2008 / ePub
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Have questions about eBooks? Check out our eBook FAQs. Product DescriptionDuring college, a professor remarked, "Being a Christian is about choosing Jesus and deciding to do something incredibly daring with your life." Taking up that challenge, Shane's faith led him to dress the wounds of lepers with Mother Teresa, visit families in Iraq amidst bombings, and dump $10,000 on Wall Street to redistribute wealth. In The Irresistible Revolution, you'll be challenged by a radical Christianity passionate for peace, social justice, and alleviating the suffering found in the local neighborhood and distant reaches of the world. Live out your faith with little acts of radical love as you join the movement of God's Spirit into a broken world.
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Publisher's DescriptionAuthor Bio Shane Claiborne, activitist and author of The Irresistible Revolution and Jesus for President, and coauthor of Common Prayer, is a founder of The Simple Way, a community in inner-city Philadelphia that has helped birth and connect radical faith communities around the world. WWW.thesimpleway.org SPANISH BIO: Shane obtuvo su titulo de la Universidad de Eastern, y curso estudios de postgrado en el Seminario de Princeton. Su experiencia ministerial es variada, pasando por una mision de diez semanas junto a la Madre Teresa de Calcuta, y a un ano dedicado al servicio de la acaudalada mega iglesia Willow Creek Community Church ubicada en las afueras de Chicago. Tambien ayudo a fundar El Camino Simple (The Simple Way), una comunidad de fe en areas urbanas marginales de la ciudad de Filadelfia que ha logrado crear y unir a comunidades de fe radical por todo el mundo. Shane escribe y viaja extensamente para hablar sobre la reconciliacion, la justicia social, y sobre Jesus. el es uno de los personajes que aparecen en la serie de DVD 'Otro Mundo Es Posible' y es autor de varios libros entre los que figuran Revolucion irresistible y Jesus para presidente. Shane participa en mas de 100 charlas anuales en unos doce paises y en casi todos los estados de los Estados Unidos.
Publisher's WeeklyIf 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. (Feb.)
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