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

Sometimes people ask me if I am scared, living in the inner city. I usually reply, “I’m more scared of the suburbs.” The Scriptures say that we should not fear those things which can destroy the body, but we are to fear that which can destroy the soul (Matt. 10:28). While the ghettos may have their share of violence and crime, the suburbs are the h

“We can live without sex, but we cannot live without love, and God is love.”

Old Testament story in which God speaks through a donkey, “God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and God’s been speaking through them ever since.” So if God should choose to use us, we shouldn’t think too highly of ourselves. And we should never assume that God cannot use someone, no matter how ornery or awkward they appear to be.

When I go on speaking engagements, I always request to stay in homes rather than hotels, dependent not on the market economy but on the hospitality of the church. I usually say to folks who ask me to speak, “If you can’t find a home for me to stay in, then I won’t be able to make it.” And it is much more beautiful to spend an evening with a family

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Dr. King said he was uncomfortable at first going to jail, but then he looked at history and saw that he was in good company. Jesus for starters. And so many of the saints and heroes of history have gone to jail. And still do.

We can admire and worship Jesus without doing what he did. We can applaud what he preached and stood for without caring about the same things. We can adore his cross without taking up ours. I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor.

In 2006 a deranged, armed gunman named Carl Roberts entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and shot ten girls, ranging in age from six to thirteen years old, killing five. Then he turned the gun on himself and killed himself. But what quickly began to steal the headlines was the way the Amish responded. Amish families i

We’d rather teach the person a lesson of justice than a lesson of love.