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

God did not mess up and make too many people and not enough stuff. Poverty was created not by God but by you and me, because we have not learned to love our neighbors as ourselves. Gandhi put it well when he said, “There is enough for everyone’s need, but there is not enough for everyone’s greed.” One of the first commands given to our biblical anc

But if you ask the average person how Christians live, they are struck silent. We have not shown the world another way of doing life. Christians pretty much live like everybody else; they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.

most Christian artists and preachers have remained strangely distant from human suffering, offering the world eternal assurance over prophetic imagination. Perhaps it should not surprise us that Jesus says that if the Christians remain silent, then the rocks will cry out . . . or the rock stars, I guess.

our goal should be not to get larger and larger but to get smaller and smaller.

Look into the eyes of the ones who are hardest for you to like, and see the One you love.

even Jesus didn’t carry his cross alone. A friend named Simon helped him carry his cross. Who are we to try to bear our cross alone?

Fear is when we let being scared stop us from doing what love requires of us.

love God, love people, and follow Jesus. And

Frederick Buechner said, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”