Becoming the Answer to our Prayers
Prayer for Ordinary Radicals

An okay book. I liked the premise that prayer and action must be unified, which was why I picked up the book, but I didn't find much of that in this little work. Mostly I got autobiographical stories about Claiborne's new monastic communities, a dangerous obsession with the Gnostic church desert fat......more

So I'll be honest - this wasn't a top priority read. I wasn't counting on anything incredibly new, and I'm the world's worst pray-er and probably only a slightly better doer. But I was looking for one of Jonathan's books to read after going to his workshop at CCDA, and this was all the library had i......more

Five stars for making prayer active without making prayer nothing but action. I really don't know how to communicate how great this book was for me as someone who struggles with praying: not so much how to do it, but what good it does and even what exactly it is. Claiborne and Wilson-Hartgrove frame......more

Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove have done a wonderful and radical thing with this book. Through moving stories and practical wisdom they propose an alternative way of prayer and action that subverts a culture submitting to either prayerful inaction, or agnostic social engagement. I can......more

A passage that moved me: “This book is about the marriage of prayer and action...We are the ones God is waiting on. When we throw up our hands and inquire, “God, why do you allow this injustice?”...We have to be ready for God to toss the same question back at us...So when we see a problem like the s......more