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“Unflinchingly honest (and funny)…You don't have to be religious to get something out of this book.” -NPR’s “Best Books of 2015”"Compulsively readable… [Bolz-Weber's] love for God and for humankind shines through on every page.” -Publishers Weekly"[Bolz-Weber] is one of the most important Christian voices around -- not because she has come up with some catchy, easy new way to do faith, but because when talks about the destructive power of sin, as well as redemption and grace, she knows of what she speaks."-Huffington Post"Wickedly funny and painfully vulnerable, theologically nuanced and lyrically sonorous. [Bolz-Weber's] voice communicates the scandal of the Christ and the sacraments of his church with more force and vitality than most writers can hope to summon."-The Christian Century“Engaging and accessible…Bolz-Weber is clear-eyed about the personal travails faced by the marginalized and those without faith.” –Booklist"If Saint Augustine were to return to life and live among us now, he would be Bolz-Weber; and if his Confessions were to be written in 21st century rhetoric and style, they would be this book. Accidental Saints is what every Christian yearns to know is possible." -Phyllis Tickle, author of The Divine Hours and The Great Emergence "To say this is a book about God working through imperfect people is to reduce a work of profound, unvarnished truth-telling to the very cliché it so masterfully avoids. Accidental Saints is a triumph in faithful storytelling. In just a few lines of description and dialog, Nadia Bolz-Weber manages to capture all that is beautiful and maddening and frightening about our shared humanity, including her own inconsistencies and struggles as a Jesus-loving sinner-saint. This is one of those rare books that will make you simultaneously wince with recognition and sigh with relief. A must read for every screw-up and asshole caught up in God’s grace."-Rachel Held Evans, author of A Year of Biblical Womanhood and Searching for Sunday “Besides the fact that she is an amazing writer, my friend Nadia understands more than most that we are messed up people living in a messed up world with other messed up people. She gets the human condition. She refuses to sugarcoat the depth of her own desperation and need. And that’s why she gets grace—our dire need for grace. She understands that God meets our messed-up-ness with his mercy over and over and over again. I couldn’t put this book down.” -Tullian Tchividjian, author of One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World and founder of LIBERATE"Nadia Bolz-Weber's new book is even tougher, sharper and sweeter than Pastrix: in painfully honest stories, she pulls back the curtains of religious life to show how church—the actual, living body of God—is created among us. This is a book for everyone who yearns to be made new."-Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread and City of God"I always feel narcissistic when I affirm writers who think like I do. But Nadia says it--and does it--so much better, with much more humor, more living examples, and a conviction that will convict you!" -Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation"This is a collection of stories about how liturgy (who would have imagined?), ritual (what?), church (really?), and a bunch of flawed people (like us?) can catch the light of grace and catch fire with the beauty of God. For so many reasons, you really should read it." -Brian D. McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christianity and A Generous Orthodoxy"This book made me so happy to be a Christian. Honest and funny, deep and insightful, Accidental Saints disarmed me and then, right when I was vulnerable, Nadia's words snuck right in to mess with me." - Sarah Bessey, author of "Jesus Feminist" and "Out of Sorts"
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About the Author
Nadia Bolz-Weber is the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado. She is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Pastrix. Nadia has been featured on CNN and in the Washington Post, Bitch Magazine, NPR’s Morning Edition, More Magazine, and the Daily Beast.
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Product details
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Convergent Books; Reprint edition (September 27, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601427565
ISBN-13: 978-1601427564
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.5 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
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Mark Driscoll opened the door for preachers and pastors who curse. I expected this book to be a cardboard, clinging to the coattails of Driscoll number. But oddly enough, just as my orthodox, fundamentalist, evangelical self began to get bored by Nadia, she would bring up the focus of my existence - Jesus of Nazareth. I personally think the tattooed, foul-mouthed, Harley-riding pastor fad is tiresome. But even in the midst of it, I am looking for Jesus. And when I see Him, I rejoice. Whether He reveals Himself through a passage of the King James or the pen of a female pastor, He is worthy of praise. That's why I will praise this book. Not because she is so cutting edge and is a breath of fresh air, she isn't. Anne Lamott was plowing an adjacent field long before Nadia came along. But Nadia knows Jesus. And she makes Him known. That is really the measure of our faith. Do we really know Him? Judas walked with Him for three years and couldn't grasp the fact that his Grace even made a way for the ultimate treachery. He didn't know Him. Some preachers spout off about Jesus as long as you have time to listen, but His grace eludes them.Nadia states, "The power of unbounded mercy, of what we call the Gospel, cannot be destroyed by corruption and toothy TV preachers. Because in the end, there is still Jesus. And I can't shake Jesus, though I've tried."She gets it. I don't agree with her on several doctrinal issues. And I'm sure several of my peers would never accept that she is a real Christian, let alone read her book. But I believe, as she does, that our Lord brings us together as long as we know Him. Not some 2 dimensional Jesus, not some carved image Jesus, but the real, breathing resurrected Lord. I am happy to call Nadia a sister and fellow leader. The fact that we hold opposite views on several points of Scripture, means far less to me than the fact that we are both seeking to sit at the feet of the Savior. This book will push the boundaries of what you think a pastor should or should not be. It will make you uncomfortable. But at the same time, I believe Nadia simply shows us her true self. We might all benefit from simply being honest about how badly we each need Jesus.
So here's the thing: I grew up in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, was baptized, confirmed, and then went to high school and found nothing in the liturgy or the service to make me stay in the church.And then I went to live in Japan and had to wrestle with a WHOLE COUNTRY of folks with a 1000 year old history that has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus.So I stopped believing the church or Christianity had anything to do with me. I'm a flaming liberal, and a religion that makes outsiders of people is not for me. I wanted religion that was inclusive, and active...and so I left.But somewhere along the lines, I wanted to sing in a choir again. So I started coming back to church. And somewhere along the lines I realized I could say the words of the Apostles Creed, sing the hymns, and say the Lord's Prayer and it didn't matter one bit whether I believed it or not. It was about doing things that helped me be a better person.And then I got breast cancer and had to go through chemo and yadda yadda yadda, I couldn't be a strong, independent person anymore, and had to accept help. And somewhere along the lines of accepting help, of being weak, and needing others-- I found friendship. I found a church community.But my terrible secret remained: I'm not sure the God in the ELCA liturgy is the god I believe. I mean, I certainly don't think 1000s of years of Japanese people are condemned to a fiery pits of hell because Jesus happened to live in the Middle East. A God of love would not work that way.And that's the long way of saying Nadia Bolz-Weber's book speaks strongly to me. She writes about her failures as a person, and as a PASTOR to love the people around her, the very people who show here the most grace when she commits to speaking in Australia instead of officiating at good friends' weddings, or avoids a parishioner with halitosis and boring stories.And she verbalizes the twin sides of the "blessing" and "neediness" issue that have been a thorn in my mental side since the first time I did volunteer work in high school. If you go out to do mission and give service, it's so very easy to fall into a mental trap. Here, she explains it better than me:"While we as people of God are called to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, the whole "we're blessed to be a blessing" thing can still be kind of dangerous. It can be dangerous when we self-importantly place ourselves above the world, waiting to descend on those below so we can be a "blessing" they've been waiting for, like it or not. Plus, seeing myself as the blessing can pretty easily obscure the way in which I am actually part of the problem and can hide the ways in which I, too, am poor and needing care."How do we go about doing service without making a distinction between those who are receiving and those giving? I think part of the answer lies in stop giving into the sin of pride about being strong, or independent or being a go-getter or organizational maven or the one who knows where all the spoons go in the church kitchen. It's about being open to the help we all need. We are all broken in our own ways. And about this other side of the service coin, Nadia writes:"And receiving grace is basically the best shitty feeling in the world. I don't want to need it. Preferably I could just do it all and be it all and never mess up. That may be what I would prefer, but it is never what I need. I need to be broken apart and put back into a different shape by the merging of things human and divine, which is really screwing up and receiving grace and love and forgiveness rather than receiving what I really deserve. I need the very thing that I will do everything I can to avoid needing."So this is a super-easy book of anecdotes and stories and vignettes about her parishioners and people she's encountered who forced her to confront grace. And I much appreciated the down-to-earth tone.
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