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    Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
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    Shameless: A Sexual Reformation

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    About this audiobook

    Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest audiobook 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 audiobook 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 29, 2019
    ISBN9781984829290
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    • 4/5
      It is about time that a book like this was written in support of women especially from a biblical sense. This book has opened my eyes as a wife a mother and a grandmother.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I wish I had a book like this to read earlier in my life. Even though I’ve come to most of the same conclusions as she presents in the book in my own time (though a lot of my own soul searching, theological study, and therapy), it was incredibly powerful to hear a pastor speak the words aloud. I know many people are still navigating through the damaging messages of the church, I definitely recommend this book as part of your journey. It was validating, encouraging, and enlightening.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I would love to have a list of sources regarding some of the history Nadia brings up; however, with a little research on google, you can easily find where the points came from, so it doesn’t bother too much.

      Obviously the topics of this book are controversial and require an open mindset, so to say I agreed on everything 100% would be false, but these are conversations worth having and I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Nadia is a wonderful storyteller. Very thought-provoking. I recommend this to anyone is open to stretching themselves and challenging their current thought structures.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Just another written attack on faith based values and beliefs

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      The author gives readers an unbiblical view of sex and sexuality. She promotes a full-throttle, carte blanche, sexual lifestyle with little regard to what the Bible teaches Christians about how to handle themselves. While some of the stories of her parishioners are heartwarming, they are void of broadly-held foundations in Christian doctrine on the matter of sex and sexuality. I believe she is well-meaning but almost totally void of Biblical truth on the topic about which she writes.

      13 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book was so helpful and refreshing. I want everyone who grew up going to church, and those dating people who did, to read this. Very hopeful and significant for me

      4 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Mrs. Bolz-Weber clearly believes an unorthodox (almost heretical) gospel.... not one that any Biblically based Christ follower would adhere to. I believe that the part of her dictated story in which she rips out portions of the Bible in order to come to a better acceptance of herself is very telling and accurately summarizes the focus of this book. Her approach to the Gospel communicates precisely her message and it is unequivocally nothing new. We (as humans) want to accept God on our terms, not His, and this book precisely communicates a human centered-sexual worldview of this fact. This book is in no way about a "reformation" it is simply a modern take on the sexual depravity and dysfunction of what many Post-Modernist understand as being normal.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      It really appears to me that she has been affected by current societal trends rather than the Bible. Why should the fallibility goal post move away from themselves and more towards the Bible, as if that was the problem all along? I really hope it is her ardent wish to help others because I feel she is doing more harm than good to those whose foundation is less than sturdy.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Read Wesley Hill’s review of this book in Christianity Today (dated 2/7/19) for clarity

      2 people found this helpful