Shane Claiborne is a living experiment—evangelical zeal mixed with grassroots activism; passion for Jesus mixed with prison time for feeding the poor. This is a rant for love, aimed at cowards seeking courage.
– Aiden Enns, publisher, Geez magazine; former managing editor, Adbusters

Sometimes I think there is really only one Christian denomination in America: American Civil Religion—a consumerist, militarist, therapeutic, colonial, nationalist chaplaincy that baptizes and blesses whatever the richest and most powerful nation on the planet wants to do. But then I hear a voice like Shane’s, I know that at least a few follow another leader on a less-traveled road. Read this book and let it make you uncomfortable, as it did me. We need this kind of discomfort more than we know.
– Brian McLaren, author, Generous Orthodoxy

Desperately urgent. Profoundly biblical. If even one in ten contemporary “Christians” dared to truly follow the one we claim to worship with half of Shane’s unconditional surrender to Christ, our evangelism would acquire an awesome power and our actions would transform our broken world.
– Ronald J. Sider, president, Evangelicals for Social Action

Shane expresses the kind of authentic Christianity that most of us are trying to avoid because the cost is too great. He proposes a lifestyle that prophetically proclaims what it means to be a follower of Jesus in the twenty-first century.
– Tony Campolo, author, Revolution and Renewa

lWritten with endearing humor and astonishing courage, The Irresistible Revolution describes a young man’s embrace of uncompromising commitment to Jesus’ teachings.
– Kathy Kelly, author, Voices in the Wilderness

If you know Shane, read this book to hear his irresistible voice on every page. If you don’t know Shane (or even if you do), read this book to hear the irresistible voice of Jesus on every page.
– Leonard Sweet, author, Summoned to Lead

“Shane is a good story teller, with stories worth telling. But this book isn’t entertainment. It’s a call to radical personal and political discipleship for a new generation, and means to shake evangelicals from their Bush-era complacency, affluenza and triumphalism. May U.S. Christians take Shane as seriously as he takes the task of trying to embody the gospel in a world riddled with violence, brokenness and hurt.”
Ched Myers, author of Who Will Roll Away the Stone? Discipleship Queries for First World Christians.

This book will challenge you to sell all you have and follow Jesus to the margins.
– Rob Moll, editor, Christianity Today

I was one of about 200 people sitting outside the Federal
Court in Binghamton, NY as a federal judge selected a jury to try four
friends on charges of conspiracy, property depredation and trespass for
their resistance to the Iraq War. I read Shane's manuscript as I waited and
I kept sharing selections with those around me. If I walked away, someone
else read and relished the book in my absence. It vitalized and gave deeper
meaning to a long day. Like the author, the book is rich and rare, fresh,
memorable and challenging - even to seasoned resisters. It is a gift to all
who long to midwife the kindom of God here and now, who want to impact the future, who would be the Church for which we long.
– Elizabeth McAlister, cofounder, Jonah House Community

If you embark on this journey, you will not only meet a tall, skinny lad named Shane, but you will also meet his homeless friends in Philly, the dying that he cared for in Calcutta, and the children he played with in Baghdad as the bombs fell—all of which raises uncomfortable questions about what it means to follow Jesus. Read this book at your own peril. Shane will challenge you to join the ranks of “ordinary radicals.”
– Tom Sine, founder, Mustard Seed Associates

Be warned, my friends: Shane is a poet, a friend, a brother—but underneath it all, he’s a prophet with a fire in his belly and a story to back it up. If you listen—or in this case, read—you will not be the same.
– Rob Bell, author, Velvet Elvis

A book on the cutting edge of Christianity. This is a genuine search for the authentic church and these young people who are searching are really going to be the revolutionary people of the day. When we look back 50 years we’re going to see it has changed society.
- John Perkins, founder of the Christian Community Development Association