If you've been following this little series on Christian politics (previous posts here , here and here ), you will see that I have been moving from optimism to critical engagement, from "cool" analysis to passionate engagement and from theory to practice. I'm not suggesting that one is superior to the other. I'm simply trying to paint a reasonably rounded picture. You might also notice that all the authors are from the US - this was unintentional but at least it shows that there is more to Christian politics in the US than the Religious Right. By way of completing the journey into practice and passionate engagement, my final exhibit is Shane Claiborne's The Irresistible Revolution: Living As An Ordinary Radical. You won't find any heavy theorising here. Claiborne is in great demand around the English-speaking world as a speaker, and has written a number of books. This is his first, the story of his life so far, published in 2006 and re-issue
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson