Ep. 5 — Human Touch, Purity Culture, Nadia Bolz-Weber's Shameless & More

In episode 5, the sisters discuss human touch and other topics relevant to the book Shameless by Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber. Naomi shares her thoughts after catching Nadia on her book tour. From perceptions around different kinds of human touch to purity culture and Christian charm school books, this episode takes another look at the way many of us were taught to “love the right way” according to Christianity and even secular purity/abstinence culture. Join the discussion! What were you taught growing up about modesty, sexual purity, virginity, waiting til marriage til have sex, etc. Let us know in the comments below!

Also mentioned: Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly and Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery, Christian Charm Course by Emily Hunter and For The Love Podcast with Jen Hatmaker, as well as The Paranormal Podcast and everything Jim Harold.

More About Shameless by Nadia Bolz-Weber Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies. Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment as a result of this toxic fixation on sex, the body, and physical pleasure. In the follow-up to her celebrated New York Times bestseller Accidental Saints, Bolz-Weber unleashes her critical eye, her sharp pen, and her vulnerable but hopeful soul on the caustic, fear-riddled, and religiously inspired messages about sex that have fed our shame.
            In turn, Bolz-Weber offers no simple amendments or polite compromises, because the stakes are too high—and our souls and our bodies are worth too much. Instead, this tattooed, swearing, modern-day pastor calls for a new reformation. She urges us to take antiquated, sexist ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies and “burn them the f*ck down and start all over.”
            This is a journey of holy resistance. Along the way, as anecdotes to shame, heresy, and all-too-familiar injustice, Bolz-Weber dispenses grace, freedom, and courage. She shares stories, poetry, and scripture, cultivating resilient hope and audacious love rooted in good news that is “powerful enough, transgressive enough, and beautiful enough to heal not only the ones who have been hurt but also those who have done the hurting.”
            In Bolz-Weber’s most personal, bracingly honest book yet, she shares intimately about her life, with her trademark blend of vulnerability, humor, and candor. If you’ve been mistreated, confused, angered, and/or wounded by the shaming sexual messages so prevalent in religion, this one is for you.

Also, be sure to tune in next time for a special episode with Lydia’s good friends Bethany LaRue and Matt Brown of We Didn’t Ask for This Podcast!

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