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“This is challenging book from Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw; at times it is a very uneasy read - I fully recommend it to you.
One of the things you'll notice is that it's a very attractive book - multi-coloured pages and scrapbook/journal format. This doesn't mean it's a light read, though it can be difficult to read the text on some of the pages, so read in good light.
The book considers how Jesus and his followers lived in the politically charged world under the control of the Roman Empire. The authors then lay out how the followers of the way chose to live comparing this with believers under and within the American Empire today (they point at that both Rome and the US spent/spend the same amount of their budgets on the military). They tell more stories of how people live a third way today: watch out for the story of the Belize farmers.
Although this is written primarily for an American audience, it has a lot to offer to Christians everywhere, who are reminded that there lives must be about love first of all. It doesn't do any harm, either, to know that there are people believing and living in these ways in the USA.”
