This book will help you to move beyond both escapism (hoping that everything works out all right for everybody but not doing anything tangible), and wide-eyed idealism. It shows us that we can, and must, spend our lives helping others, and do it wisely. And the benefit of that is that we ourselves change as we participate with God's great story of redemption.

I have had the honor of meeting and working some with Eugene Cho, volunteering for some time with One Day's Wages. I deeply respect the man and what ODW is up to - a grassroots movement of people, stories, and actions to alleviate extreme global poverty. ODW shows us that anybody can change the world. You don't have to be famous or wealthy, you just have to have a heart, and a small bit of courage.

I'm going to be handing this book out to a lot of friends. I read it at the same time as [b:A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life|1999475|A Million Miles in a Thousand Years What I Learned While Editing My Life|Donald Miller|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1410153158s/1999475.jpg|2003288], which speaks similarly (but more from the personal formation perspective, whereas Overrated is a challenge for us to engage the work of justice in our world). They fit very well together, and are wonderful encouragements to all of us - Christian or not; social justice - oriented or not.