pick(2015) it's a collection of stories and homilies by a pastor with tattoos, anger issues, salty language, and a deep appreciation for human messiness. It's heavy on grace and forgiveness, light on exhortations and moralizing. I'm an ex-evangelical quasi-atheist, but this kind of humane reading of Christian tradition resonates with me still, and I am grateful for Bolz-Weber's expression of it.
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“‘I am a Christian,‘ I concluded, ‘because the story of Jesus is still the story I‘m willing to risk being wrong about.‘”
This is a reread, and while it didn‘t feel as profound as the first time I read it, I still found so much to sit with & think through here. Her section about Paul I found especially thought provoking.
Rachel Held Evans no longer being with us & giving her voice and Christ-centered perspective feels so unfair.
There was something inside me, some hopeful, small faltering voice that said, “There‘s room for you.” I don‘t know why, but I trusted that voice.
God made a world of extraordinary beauty, and sometimes the most important thing we can do is slow ourselves down enough to see it, hear it, smell it, taste it, enter into it.
“We love big stories….but sometimes being courageous means less, quieter, stiller, smaller.”
We were made to be the things that He is: forgivers, redeemers, second chance givers, truth tellers, hope bringers.
