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Shameless
- A Sexual Reformation
- Narrated by: Nadia Bolz-Weber
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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Pastrix
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- Written by: Nadia Bolz-Weber
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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, 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.
Written by: Nadia Bolz-Weber
Publisher's Summary
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 best seller 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--k 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.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
What the critics say
“Shameless is a triumph. Nadia Bolz-Weber returns to readers the gift toxic religion and consumer culture stole: the gift of sexuality. Her wisdom is unparalleled, her vulnerability touching, her storytelling masterful, and her perspective both ancient and fresh. Shameless will give its readers their joy, relationships, and freedom back.” (Glennon Doyle, author of number-one New York Times best seller Love Warrior, Founder and President of Together Rising)
“Shameless is one of the most important, life-changing books I’ve ever read. Expertly-crafted and lovingly delivered, it serves as both a bomb and a balm - blowing up the lies religion teaches about sex and tenderly healing the wounds those messages have inflicted. Pastoral and prophetic, Shameless weaves together history, theology, biblical studies, personal narrative, and sex ed, without ever losing sight of its most important aim - honoring the dignity of actual human beings living actual, messy and beautiful lives. It’s Nadia Bolz-Weber’s best book yet. And that’s saying something.” (Rachel Held Evans, author of Searching for Sunday and Inspired)
“If the conversation around sex in the Church has felt like a small, cramped room to you, brace yourself: Nadia Bolz-Weber is about to kick in the door, hustle you outside, and burn down the room as you march out into the fresh air. This irreverent, bold, and authentic book is deeply centered in love and the transforming goodness of God. If ever there was a time for the Church to disrupt the world's broken notions around sex, gender, masculinity, and power with this sort of a shameless reformation, it is now. And Nadia is the loving, hopeful, wise, take-no-prisoners disruptor we've been waiting for.” (Sarah Bessey, author of Jesus Feminist and Out of Sorts)
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2021-10-03
A Must Listen
This book is incredible, and for anyone who has suffered abuse at the hands of the church- redemptive. Even if you have walked away from Christianity and don't intend to go back, there is much healing in this book and a different way to hold the stories that children who have been abused by literal dogma were taught.
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- Courtney Cann
- 2021-05-30
Thank You
Thank you, Nadia, for having the courage to share so honestly, humbly and truthfully. Your words not only helped to heal some of my past, but (even more excitingly) helped to shine radiant light on my future. ~Courtney Cann
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- Jake26574
- 2020-05-09
interesting
was interested to hear a woman's perspective and considered what was said. It resonates with me. thank-you for writing it.
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- Kelvin W.
- 2019-12-02
Great content!
I loved the overall story of the book but the political references weren’t needed nor were they accurate. Otherwise great book.
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- Cheryl-Lynn Brown
- 2019-07-04
Loved it!
Eloquently written, heartfelt and engaging! I have long been a fan of this author, never disappoints!
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- mountainfrog
- 2019-02-07
Disappointing
I wanted to like this book. Nadia Bolz-Weber is one of my favorite writers. I have given her books as gifts. I think she is a gifted speaker and thinker. I think her premise is correct. We need to rethink the purity culture in the Evangelical church. We need to support sexual minorities. We need love each other when we do not meet historic biblical standards set forth by the mainline (patriarchal) church.
My concern, however, is that she has a very big logical fallacy in this book. She opens her book with the argument that holiness is defined as "togetherness". She argues that holiness is where separate beings come together. This just isn't a correct definition of holiness. Holy is defined as "set apart for God". Merriam Webster definition of holy - exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness". By definition. holiness is not carnal. She argues that erotic exploration is holy because it is communion.
I think she is using the wrong words. I agree that communion can be good. I agree that God wants communion, but I don't think she is using the word "holy" correctly. Since this is one of her foundational arguments, the rest of the first section seems to falter.
Because I love her writing, I continued to the second half of the book. The second half of the book is better. She describes the walk of sexual minorities and the paternalistic church. This is compelling. She ends with the admonition to work toward forgiveness and general communion. This is powerful.
I wanted to be able to share this book, but I can't. I think her misuse of the word "holy" is too big of a stumbling block. I am personally glad I listened to it, but I can not recommend for others.
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- Dennis Di Mauro
- 2019-03-23
Angry, Self righteous and full of outright lies
It is hard to describe how bad this is...about as intellectual as a ham sandwich. self serving nonsense, grounded in nothing. All anectdote, no fact. Do yourself a favor...listen to anything else.
5 people found this helpful
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- Katie Dillman
- 2019-04-20
Most certainly pastoral work
A perfect embodiment of her self professed pastoral style of fuck it I’ll go first
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- Laura
- 2019-03-29
Not what I was hoping for.
I have been a Christian all my life and have not had bad experiences in church, so maybe, like the author says, I didn’t benefit as much from the “revolutionary” ideas in the book. To be honest, it felt like the author’s ideas were often her own opinion and arbitrary poetic ideas that weren’t based on the bible or what Jesus taught. Using the description of “holiness” liberally, was a perfect example of taking nice words from the bible and using them to suit her purposes. While not necessarily wrong, I felt like I couldn’t trust the author’s ideas because they weren’t rooted in something solid. I guess it felt more like a cultural adaptation that tried so gard to be liberal that it didn’t leave much as much solid Christianity to talk about. It’s an interesting listen, but I guess it’s not for me.
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- Kacie k.
- 2019-02-28
putting my faith back into my religion
Nadia bolz-weber has amazing context in her story and I really love how she's helped me put my face back into my religion as a lesbian affirmed Presbyterian Christian. she really puts a fresh and modern spin on Christianity which is needed to happen for some time.
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- Meg Moore
- 2019-04-23
Not what I thought
I’m not impressed by this in the least bit. If you’ve been suppressed by your sexuality by the church then maybe you’d find this interesting. But if you’re sure of yourself and looking for a different perspective on sexuality in church it sucks. I loved her interview with Rich Roll which was why I downloaded this book but this book isn’t worth it.
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- Brian
- 2019-02-12
Carrying your cross is relative
I was not surprised by the things discussed or the way in which they were presented. I am well aware of Nadia's public theology. That said, I did try to keep an open mind. However, it became very clear very quickly that she wasn't interested in a conversation regarding truth, she wanted to present her interpretation of truth as gospel. The question I had throughout the book was this, "Is it ok just to ignore or mock the things that God teaches us and tells us about ourselves just because they are inconvenient?" I agree, to an extent, that sex has become taboo in our churches despite being a gift from God in our creation. However, to say that gender dysphoria or homosexuality is not a result of a fallen world, but instead is all part of God making people mistakes and then shrugging his shoulders seems a bit too convenient. Be in the world not of it. Nadia blames conservative Christians for all of the ills surrounding sex. Mocking those with a bound conscience, whom your Denver statement supposedly protects, is not helpful. Deciding which parts of God's teachings we want to accept and ignore smacks of Marcionism. Given the current positions of the ELCA on all other matters though, it is no surprise to me that this book reads as a dedication to Baal instead of an expository of God's truth. I have zero doubt that there is grace enough from God to forgive and love those who refuse to walk in his ways. That said, there can be no forgiveness without repentance. Guard your itchy ears my friends.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-04-06
Liberal Will Love...atheists and Christians... not
Let's get out a pair of scissors and cut out the parts of the Bible we don't like and make a new religion all about love and acceptance. Then we can pretend those parts we cut out were never there- and reclaim the moral high ground for Christ.
If you're of the mind that playing at religion is great fun as long as you're super politically correct and woke about it, you will love this book.
Maybe us Humanists do need community- but unless you believe that that community should be centered around the Christian narrative- this book may cause your bile to rise.
I would have liked to hear a different reader- one who doesn't sound so much on the edge of tears.
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- John-Michael Marrs
- 2019-02-13
So thankful for and to this lady!
Characteristically honest, life-giving, and life affirming. In the vein of Pure, but with even greater hope, anecdotes, and theology.
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- Maggie Duret
- 2019-04-26
Thank you, Nadia
Thank you, Nadia. That is all I can really say. This is going to be healing for so many, including me.
1 person found this helpful