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Shameless: A Sexual Reformation Audiobook
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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. Includes a PDF of images and drawings from the book.
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“The whip-smart pastor and author…insists that the church should not be more faithful to abstract principles than to people….Not exactly the usual stuff of Christian sex books—and that’s a good thing…Sure to be helpful to many readers and just as sure to be controversial.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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"[A] mix of memoir and call to action…Bolz-Weber’s powerful book effectively presents sexually liberating and inclusive guidance within a Christian context.”
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“She engagingly shares her own memories and those of some of her parishioners while also relating the history behind the church’s teachings on relationships. Finally, she presents a sexual ethic based on principles such as gratitude, connection, and shamelessness.”
— Library Journal
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New York Times bestseller
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A #1 Amazon.com bestseller in Gender and Sexuality in Religious Studies
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About Nadia Bolz-Weber
Nadia Bolz-Weber is the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints, an ELCA mission church in Denver, Colorado. She’s a leading voice in the emerging church movement and her writing can be found in the Christian Century and Jim Wallis’s God’s Politics blog. She is author of Salvation on the Small Screen?: 24 Hours of Christian Television and the Sarcastic Lutheran blog.