Rogue Saints: Spirituality for Good-Hearted Heathens - Softcover

Herships, Jerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664264425 ISBN 13: 9780664264420

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2019

Synopsis

The world is full of good-hearted heathens, those who love people and those who want to do good in the world. They're not against God—they just have little use for church. Church is boring and hypocritical. Plus, who wants to sit through a sermon every week? But while organized religion doesn't appeal to them, these heathens long for a connection to something bigger than themselves: meaning, community, mission.

Pastor Jerry Herships leads a church-ish community full of good-hearted heathens. They may not love church, but they love sitting around a bar talking about what really matters and doing some good for their city's poorest residents. Herships takes that experience and absolves other former churchgoers of their guilt. No, you don't have to go to church to love and serve God. Yes, God still loves you and wants to help you love the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Jerry Herships is the founding pastor of After Hours Denver, a faith community of rebels and misfits that meets in dives and pubs to talk God and the Holy over drinks while making PB&Js to pass out to the hungry and homeless of downtown Denver. A former bartender turned comedian, Herships was drawn into ministry after realizing that the connections and conversations he had with his customers were deeper and more real than anything he’d ever experienced in church. He is the author of Last Call: From Serving Drinks to Serving Jesus.

Review:

“If the words ‘happy hour’ seem to have nothing to do with the words ‘Sunday worship,’ you're exactly the kind of person who will enjoy Rogue Saints. If you are holding onto faith with a fingernail—or if you lost it already and don't miss a lot of it but do miss something— then this book may be for you too. And if you think that the best response to the harm done by bad religion is to live well—then you’ll enjoy it too. Don't miss Rogue Saints!”
—Brian D. McLaren, author of The Great Spiritual Migration

“Just let love win. Jerry is one of those special humans that seems to really get it—the ways of the real, red letter Jesus outside of what religion often tells us. Love, kindness, compassion, humility, and humor—it's all there. Rogue Saints is an incredibly refreshing read that is desperately needed in our world today.”
—Sheri Fay Rosendahl, author of Not Your White Jesus

“Jerry reminds us we are simultaneously saint and sinner, called to get out of the pews and into the street because the work of Jesus is not finished; it is to be completed in us and through our acts of service to one another. Jerry is one of the ones I call ‘on the edge of the inside’—neither a ‘company man’ nor a rebel. I support him and his important work.”
—Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Founder of Center for Action and Contemplation

About this edition

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0664264425
• ISBN 13: 9780664264420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116