Shameless Book Club

This Lent we will be having what we have dubbed A Shameless Lent. During this time we will be looking at all of those things that cause us shame, and seeing what might actually be from God and what isn't. So much of what we have shame about today has nothing to do with God but rather what Culture says is right and wrong.

As part of this, on Tuesday Nights we will be meeting for a Book Study on Shameless: A Sexual Reformation (or A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good) by Nadia Bolz-Weber. 

A bit about the book:

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.

Her: “Why do you think the church has tried for so long to control human sexuality?” Him: “Maybe the church has always seen sex as its competition.”

Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For nearly two thousand years, this obsession has often turned destructive—inflicting pain, suffering, and guilt on countless people of all persuasions and backgrounds. In Shameless, Bolz-Weber calls for a reformation. To make her case, she offers experiences from her own life and stories from her parishoners alongside biblical theology to explore what the church has taught and the harm those teachings have caused. Along the way, she reexamines patriarchy, sex, and power with candor but also with hope, because in her heart she believes the “Gospel 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.”

This is by far Bolz-Weber’s most personal book yet, revealing intimate and emotional details about her life while offering a reading experience that is as entertaining and affirming as it is intellectually robust and liberating. For anyone who has been harmed by the shaming sexual messages so prevalent in religion, this book is for you.

Find the book here. 

If you join the book club, we will send you the book for $5!