The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical

by Shane Claiborne

Overview

Join Shane Claiborne as he invites you to rediscover the biblical practice of loving your neighbor, using unconventional examples from his own life to stir up questions about the church and the world while challenging you to truly live out your faith.

In this updated and expanded edition of The Irresistible Revolution, bestselling author and activist Shane Claiborne challenges us to remember that the Great Commission sends us into the world not just to make believers but to form disciples who know how to love the way God calls us to.

In The Irresistible Revolution, Shane 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. He asks and answers key questions like:

• How can I sustain my faith and combat burnout?
• Should Christians be involved in politics?
• How does God want me to spend my life?

With new material throughout the book, Shane adds new stories, shares what his community looks like now, and brings you fresh inspiration to live out this message in practical ways. Come join the revolution.

Praise for The Irresistible Revolution:

"Shane Claiborne is a living experiment—evangelical zeal mixed with grassroots activism; passion for Jesus mixed with prison time for feeding the poor. This is a rant for love, aimed at cowards seeking courage."

—Aiden Enns, publisher, Geez Magazine

"Written with endearing humor and astonishing courage, The Irresistible Revolution describes a young man's embrace of uncompromising commitment to Jesus' teachings."

—Kathy Kelly, author; cofounder of Voices in the Wilderness

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310343707
Publisher:	Zondervan
Publication date:	01/05/2016
Edition description:	10th Anniversary Edition
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	1,037,303
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and bestselling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He heads up Red Letter Christians, a movement of folks who are committed to living “as if Jesus meant the things he said.” Shane is a champion for grace, which has led him to jail advocating for the homeless, and to places like Iraq and Afghanistan to stand against war. Now, grace fuels his passion to end the death penalty.

Shane’s books include Jesus for President, Red Letter Revolution, Common Prayer, Follow Me to Freedom, Jesus, Bombs, and Ice Cream, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, his classic The Irresistible Revolution, Executing Grace, and Beating Guns. He has been featured in a number of films, including Another World Is Possible and Ordinary Radicals. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Shane speaks over one hundred times a year, nationally and internationally. His work has appeared in Esquire, SPIN, Christianity Today, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and he has been on everything from Fox News and Al Jazeera to CNN and NPR. He’s given academic lectures at Harvard, Princeton, Liberty, Duke, and Notre Dame.

Shane speaks regularly at denominational gatherings, festivals, and conferences around the globe.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jim Wallis 13

Introduction 17

Author's Note 29

1 When Christianity Was Still Safe 35

2 Resurrecting Church 51

3 In Search of a Christian 63

4 When Comfort Becomes Uncomfortable 81

5 Another Way of Doing Life 101

6 Economics of Rebirth 147

7 Pledging Allegiance When Kingdoms Collide 181

8 Jesus Made Me Do It! 215

9 Jesus Is for Losers 235

10 Extremists for Love 257

11 Making Revolution Irresistible 277

12 Growing Smaller and Smaller … Until We Take Over the World 301

13 Crazy but Not Alone 327

14 Scrap Notes from the Revolution: Frequently Asked Questions from the Past Decade 341

Appendix 1 Local Revolutions and Ordinary Radicals 369

Appendix 2 Marks of a New Monasticism 379

Appendix 3 To Iraq 381

Appendix 4 Holy Mischief 385