The Upside-Down Kingdom is a book written by Donald B. Kraybill

Donald Kraybill

Donald B. Kraybill is a prolific author, lecturer, and educator on Anabaptist faiths and living. Kraybill is widely recognized for his studies on Anabaptist groups, and is the foremost living expert on the Old Order Amish....

, a Mennonite

Mennonite

The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after the Frisian Menno Simons , who, through his writings, articulated and thereby formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders...

 sociologist, educator, and Senior Fellow of Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College

Elizabethtown College

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 in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

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. First published in 1978, the book was revised and released again in 1990. In this book, Kraybill says Jesus "calls us to foster an Upside-Down Kingdom favoring those suffering at society's margins". It won a "Best Religious Book" award.

ISBN 0-8361-3522-9