Shane Claiborne
Biography
Shane Claiborne wrote Executing Grace and Rethinking Life, and co-wrote Jesus for President with Chris Haw.
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Faithful Witness in a Fractured World
Christian Living
“One of the biggest obstacles to Christ is Christians, who often act very unlike the Christ we worship. Many folks love Jesus but don’t want anything to do with Christianity because of the contradictions and hypocrisy they see in the church. This book forges the way towards a Christianity that acts like Jesus again, a movement that loves like Christ loves. Johnson and Snarr know that our current crisis in America is not just a political one, but it is also a spiritual and moral crisis. At the heart of that crisis is a church that has lost the art of spiritual formation. We’ve focused more on making believers than forming disciples, and when that happens our faith gets in a funk. Here’s a book that can help us get out of the funk we’re in and discover a faith that is worth believing in and dying for. This book is a call to love like Jesus loved, and not let the haters hold us back.”
World Religions
“Harper is one of the most influential leaders in the US and across the globe. This is her most important book yet. She unifies her own family history with her insightful theology. She names the sinful, demonic force of racism, but she also casts a vision for how we can heal our wounds from it. Pure fire from beginning to end.”
Evangelism & Missions
“For years, Don Everts has been communicating the simple, brilliant, world-changing good news of Jesus. Here's his latest masterpiece. May it inspire you, not only to believe something in your head but to do something daring with your life.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Walter Brueggemann is a legend. He is one of the most influential biblical scholars of the past century. Few people have inspired me more than Brueggemann, especially as we try to understand what it means to be God’s peculiar people in the belly of the empire. This series is sort of like the ‘best hits’ album of one of the world’s greatest theologians.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Much of our spirituality is a mile long and an inch deep. James Bryan Smith helps us go deeper. This book is based on one chapter of the Bible, and it is a dazzling one. On these pages, you'll find a countercultural invitation—an affront to the self-centered world of self-help books, blessing-obsessed televangelists and fluffy motivational messages. Here is an invitation to die to live, to find your life by giving it away. It's a smooth, easy-to-read book, but underneath it all is a radical message about reorienting our lives so that we look more like Jesus—and thereby interrupt the patterns of inequity and injustice that plague our world.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“A lot of people say God has told them something, but then you hear what it is, and it sounds more like a message from the devil. Other folks who don’t even believe in God seem to have a word of truth for today. Well, here is a book by someone you can trust. Pete Greig has been a friend for years, and he is one of the wisest people I know when it comes to prayer. This book draws from the well of wisdom that has nourished the faithful for centuries. It is filled with voices of saints who have been not only people of prayer but people who get up off their knees and put feet on those prayers. This incredible book is a call to prayer and a call to action . . . which is exactly what our world needs right now.”
Christian Living
“Bessenecker casts out some demons from the Pentagon and Wall Street. He names some popular idols like security and independence, and calls us to a simple faith rooted in our love of God and neighbor, which means interdependence and vulnerability and all sorts of countercultural values. Scott offers a simple and scandalous invitation into the upside-down kingdom of God. This kingdom is about a God who blesses the meek in a world that admires aggression. It is about a God who blesses the peacemakers in a world that blesses the warriors. It is about a God who blesses the poor, not just the middle class, a God who casts the mighty from their thrones and raises the lowly, who fills the hungry with good things and sends the rich away empty. Bessenecker offers a message that drips with Jesus--and the kingdom vision is just as offensive and revolutionary and fascinating and timely today as it was thousands of years ago. Beware . . . it could get you in a little trouble or cost you your job--but it will certainly set you free.”
Christian Living
“Leonard Sweet is a theological poet. And this is a book that makes you want to dance. It’s not about having all the right techniques; it’s about having the right ears to hear the music. Let yourself go.”
“This book is a timely intersection of the new and ancient, breathing fresh life into an aging body. An older generation will find this book a long-awaited reassurance that the Spirit is still stirring radical nonconformity on the margins of empires. And the contemporary renewal of new monastics and prophetic tricksters will find a cure for the pretension and sloppiness that can so often taint our vision or tempt us to pretend that there is 'something new under the sun.' With both courage and humility, we will all find ourselves invited to inhabit the incarnational body that makes God visible to the world . . . May it inspire all of us to become the church that God longs for.”
Christian Living
“Dissent is a gift to the church. It is the imagination of the prophets that continually calls us back to our identity as the peculiar people of God. May Viola’s words challenge us to become the change that we want to see in the church.”
Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me
History & Biography
“I like stories. And this is a good one. Ian Cron has a ton to teach the world, and he’s gentle as he does it. Here it is: The Gospel of Ian . . . not in the top four gospels, but it’s pretty magnificent. And it’s sure evidence that God continues to tell the extraordinary story of grace through the lives of ordinary people.”
Evangelism & Missions
“This book is a theological collage, weaving stories together like a spiritual quilt. It celebrates the active, feet-on-the-ground faith of incredible people. It is a reminder that Christianity is not just a way of believing—it is a way of living in the world. Let this book inspire you to live out the revolution of Jesus wherever you are!”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“John Perkins and Wayne Gordon are two of the wisest and greatest leaders I know. For nearly 20 years, I have been learning everything I can from them. This book is the newest, freshest fruit of the lifelong friendship of this dynamic duo of urban ministry.”
Christian Living
“Tom Sine's new book invites you to see another version of Christianity, and it is all about bringing heaven to earth.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This series is on reconciliation, which is at the heart of the Christian faith. One of the early Christians said there are three dimensions to the cross--the vertical, which is about reconciliation with God; the horizontal, which is about reconciliation to other humans; and finally the cross is firmly planted into the earth, which calls us to reconcile with creation. That final dimension is perhaps the most neglected one of all in the piles of books on faith. I am deeply thankful for this addition to the library. We all just got smarter.”
Theology
“I try to read everything I can by Rodney Clapp. His writing has been instrumental in the radicalization of my own theology and life. This book is extra special because he’s written it in a way that is readable to theological rookies and veterans alike. It is both simple and beautiful, and characteristically profound.”
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