Book #16: Salvation On The Small Screen

Nadia Bolz-Weber was a featured speaker at the conference in Memphis (The Great Emergence). A recently ordained Lutheran pastor in the Denver, Nadia is a recovering stand-up comic who has battled through a fundamentalist Christian upbringing as well as a bout with alcohol.

Her witty and raw reflections which opened and closed each main session were often read from this book. The "inspiration" behind Nadia's book was a request from the publisher that she watch 24 hours of non-stop TBN and reflect on the content. So she invited several friends who pop in for 1 or 2-hour segments and support her through the likes of Paula White, Creflo Dollar, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, etc ad infinitum!


As someone who can hardly stomach 30 consecutive minutes of anything on this ultra-'conservative' Evangelically fundamental Christian broadcast...I thoroughly enjoyed the pokes and jabs, but also found (as did Nadia) that there were glimpses of Christ and the Gospel that surprisingly shone through at times.


To learn some more about Nadia, click here.