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Claiborne is the real thing, the guy who not only talks Jesus’ talk, but walks Jesus’ walk. He lives in intentional community and voluntary poverty, owning all goods in common, in the inner city of Philadelphia (not generally the place where you’ll find a skinny white boy from a nice, middle class Methodist family from Tennessee). He has traveled to Calcutta to work with Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity and been to Iraq while the bombs were dropping. When Jesus said to the rich young man, sell all and follow me, Shane listened — and obeyed. His whole being is infused with the glorious madness of the Gospel, and he fairly glows with the absolute nature of his commitment.
And, now he’s written a book.
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical is a stunning book, utterly compelling, part autobiography, part theological treatise. It’s also unbelievably accessible, and chockfull of the kind of passion and eloquence that can cause one to seriously ruminate over the nature of the life that he or she lives.
Shane defines an ordinary radical as someone who gets “down to the roots of what it means to be Christian disciples.” He goes on to clarify:
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