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"Seven years on from its original publication, Pastrix remains
bracing and beautiful. Nadia's bold vulnerability and tender heart
are timeless gifts. And the words she has added to this edition
remind me: We need her call to tender grace and a loving, forgiving
God now more than ever." -- Jeff Chu, Author of Does Jesus Really
Love Me? Pastrix: a derogatory term used by Christians who refuse
to recognize female pastors. Heavily tattooed and foul-mouthed,
Nadia Bolz-Weber, a former stand-up comic, sure as hell didn't
consider herself to be religious-leader material-until the day she
ended up leading a friend's funeral in a smoky downtown comedy
club. Surrounded by fellow alcoholics, depressives, and cynics, she
realized: These were her people. Maybe she was meant to be their
pastor. Using life stories-from living in a hopeful-but-haggard
commune of slackers to surviving the wobbly chairs and war stories
of a group for recovering alcoholics, from her unusual but
undeniable spiritual calling to pastoring a notorious con
artist-Nadia uses humorous narrative and poignant honesty to
portray a woman who is both deeply faithful and deeply flawed,
giving hope to the rest of us along the way. This is the book for
people who hunger for a bit of hope that doesn't come from vapid
consumerism or navel-gazing; for women who talk too loudly and guys
who love chick flicks; for the gay man who loves Jesus and won't
allow himself to be shunned by the church. In short, this book is
for every thinking misfit suspicious of institutionalized religion
but still seeking transcendence and mystery. Updated with a new
afterword, Pastrix is wildly entertaining, sardonically irreverent,
and deeply resonant-a messy, beautiful, prayer-and profanity-laden
narrative about an unconventional life of faith.
Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber's latest book offers a
full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex,
gender, and our bodies. Christians are obsessed with sex. But not
in a good way. For nearly two thousand years, this obsession has
often turned destructive, inflicting pain, suffering, and guilt on
countless people of all persuasions and backgrounds. In Shameless,
Bolz-Weber calls for a reformation. To make her case, she offers
experiences from her own life and stories from her parishoners
alongside biblical theology to explore what the church has taught,
and the harm those teachings have caused. Along the way, she
re-examines patriarchy, sex, and power with candour but also with
hope, because in her heart she believes the "Gospel is powerful
enough, transgressive enough, and beautiful enough to heal not only
the ones who have been hurt but also those who have done the
hurting." This is by far Bolz-Weber's most personal book yet,
revealing intimate and emotional details about her life while
offering a reading experience that is as entertaining and affirming
as it is intellectually robust and liberating. For anyone who has
been harmed by the shaming sexual messages so prevalent in
religion, this book is for you.
What if the annoying person you try to avoid is actually seconds
away from becoming an accidental saint in your life? What if, even
in our persistent failings, holy moments are waiting to happen? In
Accidental Saints, New York Times bestselling author Nadia
Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising encounter with what
she calls "a religious but not-so-spiritual life." Tattooed, angry,
and profane, this unlikely priest stubbornly, sometimes
hilariously, resists the God she feels called to serve. But God
keeps showing up in the least likely of people-a church-loving
agnostic, a drag queen, and a gun-toting member of the NRA. As she
lives and worships alongside these "accidental saints," Nadia is
swept into first-hand encounters with grace-a gift that often feels
less like being wrapped in a warm blanket and more like being hit
by a blunt instrument. But by this grace, people are transformed in
ways they couldn't have been on their own. In a time when many have
become disillusioned with Christianity, Accidental Saints
demonstrates what happens when ordinary people share bread and
wine, struggle with scripture together, and tell each other the
truth about their real lives. This unforgettable account of their
faltering steps toward wholeness will ring true for believer and
skeptic alike. Told in Nadia's trademark confessional style,
Accidental Saints is the stunning next work from one of today's
most important religious voices.
A book for every person who's ever flipped past the religious
channel on cable and thought, "I haven't the faintest clue what's
going on there," or "that church doesn't seem like my church at
all," or even, "wow, so that's what happened to Kirk Cameron." With
the personalities of Christian broadcasting constantly in the news
talking about every major issue from abortion to culture to war and
with the amount of influence their movements have on the the
political discourse in this country, to under stand more about the
stop on the television dail is to understand more about American
and America's religious landscape. On an average day, the largest
religious broadcast channel in the country reaches millions of
viewers and features programming from figures such as Benny Hinn,
T.D. Jakes, Pat Robertson, Paul and Jan Crouch, Jess Duplantis,
Joel Osteen, and others, yet despite it's presence in well over 50
million household many have little conception of what kind of faith
happens there. Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Lutheran seminarian and former
stand-up comic who's never before watched religious broadcasting,
spends 24 hours in front of the TV immersing herself in the
messages and culture to be found on the part of the dial. Bolstered
by visits from guest such as rabbi, her 8-year-old daughter,
Unitarian friend, and others, Salvation on the Small Screen? is
Bolz-Weber's chronicle, augmented by after-the-fact research, of a
huge, but unknown or mysterious to many, branch of religious
culture."
God is not an idea. Christian faith is not a set of propositions
you either believe or reject. According to a proper Trinitarian
understanding, God is essentially relationship, a relationship of
sheer, active, ecstatic, self-giving love. If we truly are
encountered by this magnificent love of the Trinity, then faith
becomes a living and active daily practice. Just like a healthy
marriage or a close and loyal friendship, it becomes something you
choose every day. This "51% Christian" moniker is a ridiculous
label with a deadly serious point. You now have permission to
doubt, to question, to get angry at God. But, in the end, it's not
about you. Faith is about relationship: a living, daily
relationship, based on trust, and active in concrete, daily
practices. With this sort of freedom ingrace, Stenberg takes a
fresh new look at theology, thirteen topics that, one by one,
examine the best of what the Bible and the history of Christian
practitioners have to say. Looking through this grace-based,
radically relational lens, the author offers a lively and engaging
discussion of topics such as creation, violence, love, death,
heaven, and hell. You might not always agree.
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