Name: SHAMELESS
ISBN: 9780281080960

NADIA. BOLZ-WEBER

A Sexual Revolution

SHAMELESS

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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.

A sexual reformation

Shameless

I went into this expecting answers. Instead, I have some important questions I need to answer for myself. Emotional, like a loving hug. 

Grating read if you’re not of Christian faith as it’s heavy on Biblical theology. 

Abdullah Raza

I went into this expecting answers. Instead, I have some important questions I need to answer for myself. Emotional, like a loving hug. 

Grating read if you’re not of Christian faith as it’s heavy on Biblical theology. 

Patrick Book

Holy shit. Am I a Christian now?? This is one of the most beautiful, poignant, unflinching, and shockingly accessible pieces of (I guess) Christian writing I’ve ever read. As an ag-blah-stic who just doesn’t care if there’s a god or whatever, this restored my faith in everything I don’t believe in. I didn’t know there were church folk out there like this! It really gives me hope that there are even people out there like her and her congregants. Make this lady pope, or whatever?

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 generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment as a result of this toxic fixation on sex, the body, and physical pleasure. In the follow-up to her celebrated New York Times bestseller Accidental Saints, Bolz-Weber unleashes her critical eye, her sharp pen, and her vulnerable but hopeful soul on the caustic, fear-riddled, and religiously inspired messages about sex that have fed our shame. In turn, Bolz-Weber offers no simple amendments or polite compromises, because the stakes are too high--and our souls and our bodies are worth too much. Instead, this tattooed, swearing, modern-day pastor calls for a new reformation. She urges us to take antiquated, sexist ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies and "burn them the f*ck down and start all over." This is a journey of holy resistance. Along the way, as antidotes to shame, heresy, and all-too-familiar injustice, Bolz-Weber dispenses grace, freedom, and courage. She shares stories, poetry, and scripture, cultivating resilient hope and audacious love rooted in good news that 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." In Bolz-Weber's most personal, bracingly honest book yet, she shares intimately about her life, with her trademark blend of vulnerability, humor, and candor. If you've been mistreated, confused, angered, and/or wounded by the shaming sexual messages so prevalent in religion, this one is for you.

A Sexual Reformation

Randi Smith

Lovely

Fantastic book. Helped me work through a lot of purity culture trauma. So thankful for Nadia Bolz-Weber and her congregants that played a role in this book being written

SHAMELESS A Sexual Revolution

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