Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Raw, intimate, and timely-a no-holds-barred celebration of our bodies that flies in the face of antiquated ideas about sex and gender. "A triumph."-Glennon Doyle • "One of the most important, life-changing books I've ever read."-Rachel Held Evans, author of Searching for Sunday and Inspired Negative messages about sex come from all corners of society: from the church, from the media, from our own families. As a result, countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment. In this instant bestseller, Nadia Bolz-Weber unleashes her critical eye and her vulnerable yet hopeful soul on the harmful conversations about sex that have fed our shame. Bolz-Weber offers no simple amendments or polite compromises. Instead, this modern-day reverend calls for an inclusivity that empowers us to be loyal to people and, perhaps most important, ourselves. "Christianity is not a program for avoiding mistakes," she writes. "It is a faith of the guilty." With an alternative understanding of ...