ACCIDENTAL SAINTS.

Nadia Bolz-Weber, author of the New York Times bestseller Pastrix, may be the most unlikely minister. She's a tattooed Crossfit fanatic with a checkered past and a penchant for four letter words who stubbornly, sometimes hilariously, resists the God she feels called to serve.

In ACCIDENTAL SAINTS, Nadia takes us inside the House for All Sinners and Saints, her young congregation in Denver, Colorado. In daily life with her people, she keeps “stumbling into holy moments,” when a divine intrusion breaks through her resistance and sweeps her up in unforgettable experiences of giving and receiving grace—of actually being grace. As we watch her dramatic stories unfold, we begin to sense that just such holy moments are waiting for each unlikely one of us—if we knew where to look. (As Nadia says, “I guarantee this shit is happening to other people.”) In a time when many have become disillusioned with Christianity, ACCIDENTAL SAINTS demonstrates what happens when ordinary people surrender to word and sacrament in an honest, loving community of faith. Told in Nadia's trademark confessional style, and evoking such classics as Traveling Mercies and The Ragamuffin Gospel, this book is a stunning next work from one of today's most important Christian voices. Nadia Bolz-Weber is the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado. She is author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Pastrix. Her writings can be found in the Christian Century, The Lutheran Magazine and Patheos.com. Nadia has been featured in The Washington Post, Bitch Magazine, NPR's Morning Edition, More Magazine, The Daily Beast and on CNN.