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.
“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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