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Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Convergent. 2015. 225p. notes. ISBN 9781601427557. $23; ebk. ISBN 9781601427571. REL
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Bolz-Weber follows up her memoir Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint with this thought-provoking portrait of people and circumstances that have taught her Bible truths. (One cautionary note: her style includes quite a bit of vulgarity.) Some chapters are humorous, such as when she goes to a shooting range with her "token conservative friend" and her panic attack in the Holy Land over a mountain road. Other chapters reveal deeper emotions and difficulties, for instance, dealing with death and suffering. One key truth is confessed in the first chapter: "half the time, I wish God would leave me alone. Getting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don't even like, or to give away even more of my money." Yet throughout the book, God brings people into her life, and she becomes "a person on whom God is at work."
VERDICT Recommended for readers who enjoyed Bolz-Weber's previous books or authors such as Anne Lamott and Brian McClaren. An entertaining, reality-based alternative to the polished "professional Christian" memoir.
Reviewed by Ray Arnett, Fremont Area Dist. Lib., MI , Nov 20, 2015
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