nat_sanchez 's review for:

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne

4.75

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

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This is my introduction to Shane Claiborne, but it certainly won’t be the last book I read by him. This book is based on the idea that “ordinary radicals” are necessary to change the world into the place we want it to be. I have always been drawn to people’s personal stories of a life guided by spiritual principles rather than just spiritual rhetoric— books like the long loneliness by Dorothy day and See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur. The thing that I think all of these authors have in common is their courage, and I think they use their unique voices to show others that they can have courage too. Key quote - “What the world needs is people who believe so much in another world that they cannot help but begin enacting it now.”