Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television - Softcover

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596270861 ISBN 13: 9781596270862

Publisher: Seabury Books, 2008

Synopsis

A book for every person who's ever flipped past the religious channel on cable and thought, "I haven't the faintest clue what's going on there," or "that church doesn't seem like my church at all," or even, "wow, so that's what happened to Kirk Cameron."  With the personalities of Christian broadcasting constantly in the news talking about every major issue from abortion to culture to war and with the amount of influence their movements have on the the political discourse in this country, to under stand more about the stop on the television dail is to understand more about American and America's religious landscape.

On an average day, the largest religious broadcast channel in the country reaches millions of viewers and features programming from figures such as Benny Hinn, T.D. Jakes, Pat Robertson, Paul and Jan Crouch, Jess Duplantis, Joel Osteen, and others, yet despite it's presence in well over 50 million household many have little conception of what kind of faith happens there.

Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Lutheran seminarian and former stand-up comic who's never before watched religious broadcasting, spends 24 hours in front of the TV immersing herself in the messages and culture to be found on the part of the dial.  Bolstered by visits from guest such as rabbi, her 8-year-old daughter, Unitarian friend, and others, Salvation on the Small Screen? is Bolz-Weber's chronicle, augmented by after-the-fact research, of a huge, but unknown or mysterious to many, branch of religious culture.

About this title

Book Description:

"Laugh-out-loud hysterically funny and also extraordinarily poignant - we need more theology done like this."

About the Author:

Nadia Bolz-Weber is the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado. She is the author of the "New York Times "best-selling memoir "Pastrix. "Nadia has been featured on CNN and in the "Washington Post, Bitch Magazine, "NPR s "Morning Edition, More Magazine, "and the "Daily Beast.""

About this edition

• Publisher: Seabury Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1596270861
• ISBN 13: 9781596270862
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 165