It has been a while since I blogged about the book Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne. Hindsight has helped me realize how formative that book was for me. It changed my thinking in a lot of ways. On Sunday night CNN ran a feature on Claiborne’s book tour for his latest book, Jesus for President. Normally a guy with a “radical” message, and someone who CNN calls a “misfit,” would not be recognized a leader of any type of change within Christianity. That is not the case with Shane. His message has been welcomed with open arms by young Christians.
I’ve spent a lot of time on this blog talking about independent politics, the issues of Christianity being polarized to one party, and many topics that within that arena. I’m sure many of you just think I’m being liberal or that I’m one of very few who thinks this way. I invite you read the article on CNN and watch this video by CNN too.
Then I invite you to seek out someone younger than you that cares about their faith in Christ and cares about the United States political process. I might not be the only one…