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Campbell, Cathy C. Stations of the Banquet: Faith Foundations for Food Justice (Liturgical Press, 2004); ISBN 0-8146-2938-5; 336 pp; $19.95 Claiborne, Shane. The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006); ISBN 0310266300; 367 pp; $12.99. Foreword by Jim Wallis. Shane Claiborne grew up in East Tennessee and went to Eastern College in Pennsylvania wanting to see people live like Jesus. When his friends invited him to spend some time sleeping with the homeless in inner city Philadelphia, he began his a long adventure in Christian social activism, leading to such things as: helping homeless families pass fire codes in the vacant cathedral they were squatting; a summer with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, a vastly different year as an intern at Willow Creek Church; dropping money for the poor on Wall Street, visiting the church in Iraq during the US bombing; and now as one of the founders of the Simple Way community (www.thesimpleway.org). To listen to one of Shane's talks now posted online, visit www.christchurchhw.org, scroll down (or search for) audio links to the 2006 "Lenten Forum," and click on the first session, "The Call to Justice and Peace." Homan, Daniel, OSB, and Lonni Collins Pratt, Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love (Paraclete Press, 2002); a study guide is also available. Hoppe, Leslie J., OFM, There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty in the Bible (Abingdon Press, 2004). Includes study questions and reading list. Jung, L. Shannon. Sharing Food: Christian Practices for Enjoyment (Fortress Press, September 2006); ISBN 0-8006-3792-5; 176 pp; $15.00. By the author of Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating. McCurley, Foster R., ed. Social Ministry in the Lutheran Tradition (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008); ISBN 978-0-8006-2129-2; 176 pp; Contributed essays on social ministry in historical and pastoral perspectives. Contributors include: Foster R. McCurley ("The identity and work of God: Social justice in the Bible"), Samuel Torvend ("The relief of the needy in their distress: Early and medieval Christian social initiatives"), Carter Lindberg ("No greater service to God than Christian love: Insights from Martin Luther"), Eric W. Gritsch ("Faith active in love: The development of modern Lutheran social witness"), Carl T. Uehling ("A sign of God's Grace, A fruit of faith: American Lutheran social service from 1800 to 1945"), Robert Duea ("Bringing hope and life: Lutheran social ministry organizations in America since World War II"), "The Future's Group" ("Where do we go from here? The changing context and commitments in social ministry"), and Martin E. Marty ("Epilogue: Bearing risk in a broken world"). Miles, Sara. Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion (NY: Ballantine, 2007). Extraordinary memoir of how a radical (former) atheist walked into St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco one Sunday morning for no earthly reason, received communion, and in the communion encountered Jesus, and found herself transformed. Before long she was turning the bread she ate at communion into a food kitchen, with groceries given away from the altar itself. Within a few years she and those she served had started nearly a dozen food pantries in the poorest parts of their city. For more on the food pantry, visit http://www.saramiles.net/food_pantry Peters, Rebecca Todd, and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, eds. To Do Justice: A Guide for Progressive Christians. (Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2008). Encouraging Christians to call for public policies that benefit those most vulnerable in the US, this book offers tools for studying complex domestic social problems and serves as a guidebook for getting involved in social action. Pohl, Christine D. Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999). This is not technically a study guide but would serve well for group discussions. A Thoughtful and practical reflections on the early Christian and current practices of hospitality; sections on the early church focus largely on John Chrysostom; the book began as a series of interviews with eight different communities of hospitality. Russell, Sharman Apt. Hunger: An Unnatural History. NY: Basic Books, 2005. Not much on religion but very well-written essays on various aspects of hunger (voluntary and involuntary); would make thoughtful study book for a group setting. Walls, Jeannette.The Glass Castle: A Memoir (NY: Scribner, 2005); ISBN 0-7432-4753-1; 288 pp. Not a religious book, but a fascinating true story of the author's relationship with her dysfunctional parents even after they intentionally choose to live as homeless persons on the streets of New York City. Wolf, Geralyn. Down and Out in Providence: Memoir of a Homeless Bishop (NY: Crossroad, 2005); ISBN 0-8245-2276-1; 159 pp; $16.95. A riveting and informative true account by the Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island, of her intentional first-hand experience living on the streets as a homeless person in order to better understand the biblical call to serve Christ in the poor. "Bishop Wolf's provocative and compelling narrative invites us all to look at the servant church, and our duty to one another, in a new and provocative way." (back cover)
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