Red Letter Revolution, Shane Claiborne
Red Letter Revolution, Shane Claiborne
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Red Letter Revolution
What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?

Author: Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo

Narrator: Stu Gray, Henry O. Arnold

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 10/08/2012


Synopsis

Framed as a captivating dialogue between Shane Claiborne, a progressive young evangelical, and Tony Campolo, a seasoned pastor and professor of sociology, Red Letter Revolution is a life-altering manifesto for skeptics and Christians alike.Best-selling authors Shane Claiborne and Tony Campolo talk candidly about the life and teaching of Jesus and the wisdom he offers our fractured world. It is time to re-imagine the world and the way we live—the old patterns of politics, economics, and religion that aren’t working. It’s time for a new kind of Christianity. In Red Letter Revolution, best-selling authors Shane Claiborne and Tony Campolo take on the hardest issues facing our world. They show that Jesus’ example is relevant and revolutionary and call us back to a Christianity that looks like him again. In this ambitious project, they mine the words of Jesus—the “red letters” of Scripture—asking the simple question, “What if we lived out the stuff he said?”From the power in Washington to the poverty in rural towns to the broken systems everywhere else, the world is looking for salvation. But this salvation is not just for people’s souls—it’s for schools, governments, churches, and families.Red Letter Revolution is about politics, but it’s fresh. It’s about theology, but it’s real. It’s about economics, but it’s interesting. It’s about Jesus, who longs to transform the world despite the embarrassing things his followers have done in his name. For conservatives and progressives, skeptics and believers, Red Letter Revolution undertakes the world-shaping mission to understand how Jesus’ words could change everything—if we’d only give them a chance.

About Shane Claiborne

Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and bestselling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He heads up Red Letter Christians, a movement of folks who are committed to living “as if Jesus meant the things he said.” Shane is a champion for grace, which has led him to jail advocating for the homeless, and to places like Iraq and Afghanistan to stand against war. Now, grace fuels his passion to end the death penalty. Shane’s books include Jesus for President, Red Letter Revolution, Common Prayer, Follow Me to Freedom, Jesus, Bombs, and Ice Cream, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, his classic The Irresistible Revolution, Executing Grace, and Beating Guns. He has been featured in a number of films, including Another World Is Possible and Ordinary Radicals. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Shane speaks over one hundred times a year, nationally and internationally. His work has appeared in Esquire, SPIN, Christianity Today, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and he has been on everything from Fox News and Al Jazeera to CNN and NPR. He’s given academic lectures at Harvard, Princeton, Liberty, Duke, and Notre Dame.  Shane speaks regularly at denominational gatherings, festivals, and conferences around the globe.

About Tony Campolo

Tony Campolo (Ph.D., Temple University) is professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University in suburban Philadelphia, a media commentator on religious, social, and political matters, and the author of a dozen books, including Revolution and Renewal, Let me Tell You a Story, and 20 Hot Potatoes Christians Are Afraid to touch.


Reviews

This book poses the question, how would the world be today if we followed the Red Letters in the New Testament. Granted ,this book came out before the Cairo Spring and COVID-19, it still has ideas that are still pertinent to the world we live in today.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

While I believe the authors of this book meant well; they did not write a manifesto on what it means to be a Red Letter Christian. What they wrote was a haphazard hot-potato discussion of topics, "dialogue on homosexuality" "dialogue on politics" "dialogue on the Middle East" etc. And while one migh......more

Goodreads review by Nathan

There are times where reading the dialogue between friends creates an enjoyable reading experience, where the familiarity of the conversation partners creates an intimate mood. Then there are occasions like reading this book, where a chummy atmosphere between readers is the last thing one wants wher......more

Goodreads review by Emily

For those interested in scriptural study the idea of "red letters" is a fairly common concept. In fact since 1899 Bibles have been published with the words of Jesus highlighted in red. In this new book by Shane Claiborne the concept is taken a step further. The question is asked: What if Jesus reall......more

Goodreads review by Eleanor

An exceptionally thoughtful, provocative, and challenging book. I read this because the clergy staff at our church was using it for a 13 week study. I got to know our clergy much better because of the discussions the "hot potato" topics led to, but I also got to know my fellow participants a little......more