New York Times Bestseller - One of NPR's Best Books of 2015 What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grace today? And what if that's the point?In Accidental Saints, New York Times best-selling author Nadia Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising encounter with what she calls a religious but t-so-spiritual life. Tattooed, angry and profane, this former standup comic turned pastor stubbornly, sometimes hilariously, resists the God she feels called to serve. But God keeps showing up in the least likely of people a church-loving agstic, a drag queen, a felonious Bishop and a gun-toting member of the NRA. As she lives and worships alongside these accidental saints, Nadia is swept into first-hand encounters with grace a gift that feels to her less like being wrapped in a warm blanket and more like being hit with a blunt instrument. But by this grace, people are transformed in ways they couldn t have been on their own. In a time when many have rightly become disillusioned with Christianity, Accidental Saints demonstrates what happens when ordinary people share bread and wine, struggle with scripture together, and tell each other the truth about their real lives. This unforgettable account of their faltering steps toward wholeness will ring true for believer and skeptic alike. Told in Nadia s trademark confessional style, Accidental Saints is the stunning next work from one of today s most important religious voices.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
ISBN-10
1601427557
ISBN-13
9781601427557
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215683824
Dimensions
Weight
318g
Height
216mm
Width
147mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
NY
Spine
23mm
Author Biography
Nadia Bolz-Weberis 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.
