Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

by Nadia Bolz-Weber

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.

am desperate for is to speak the truth of my burden of sin and have Jesus take it from me, yet ranting about the system or about other people will always be my go-to instead. Because maybe if I show the right level of outrage, it’ll make up for the fact that every single day of my life I have benefitted from the very same system that acquitted George Zimmerman.

preacher is so obviously preaching to herself and just allowing them to overhear it.

Jesus could have hung out in the high-end religious scene of his day, but instead he scoffed at all that, choosing instead to laugh at the powerful, befriend whores, kiss sinners, and eat with all the wrong people. He spent his time with people for whom life was not easy.

we aren’t punished for our sins as much as we are punished by our sins.