SPIRITUALITY & RELIGION

Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better

Thomas Nelson. Apr. 2015. 224p. ISBN 9780529123855. $15.99; ebk. ISBN 9780529123862. REL
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Hansen is a radio host and also works with CURE International and is active as a blogger and Twitter user. So, while neither an academic nor a traditional minister, he is the very model of a modern Christian: full of a missionary's zeal and conversant with social media. Hansen's message is true to his approach. His mode is remarkably inoffensive, and the lesson he offers is that it is better for Christians to discard their personal (or societal) propensity to take offense or indulge in righteous anger. He asserts that being "unoffendable" is the meaning of service, of humility, of "dying to the self," as the faith instructs. His method is light, accessible, and occasionally touched with suitably humble instances of humor, usually at his own expense. Unoffendability, to the author, is key to the conclusion of a certain sort of pain and the answer to discovering "the joy of gratitude."
VERDICT A slight but charming handbook for the contemporary Christian that will also find its audience among pastors.
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