HarperSanFrancisco, 1981/rev. 2005,
201 pp., $13.95, www.harpercollins.com
YouthWorker Journal usually doesn’t review books that are 25 years old, but Wallis recently revised a book too important to ignore. He addresses issues that are not necessarily prominent for either liberals or evangelicals but are vital to the community of faith as it intersects the world. For example, poverty doesn’t get much air-time in many churches, but Wallis convincingly presents Jesus as the original anti-poverty prophet who recognizes that despair leads to a host of other problems. His writing style is pastoral, engaging, Scripture-based, and forward-looking. His vision is of a world fully converted to Jesus. You won’t read it in one go because you have to soak it in, think about it, and maybe even be, well, converted by it.
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Blake Hawthorne, teacher and pastor in Nashville, Tenn., and Tools Editor for YWJ
