ANOTHER EARLY REVIEW FOR SIN BOLDLY HITS THE ‘NET

Joel over at the blog “City Grace” posted a lovely review of Sin Boldly last night.
The pastor of Chicago’s Sunshine Gospel Ministries said, in part:

Falsani’s book made me think about a recent argument made by Tim Keller that religion advocates typically are so disconnected from disbelievers that they caricature one another in argument, find no common ground, and therefore have meaningless conversations that are more attack than discussion. Keller would like her I think. . .

Falsani presents a series of short chapters sharing quite personally from her life’s quest to find grace in the nitty-gritty, ebbs and flows of life. She is quite atypical for an evangelical in that she finds comfort in realizing her own failings and eagerness to discover lessons on grace from pop culture, foreign countries, an odd nun, sexist African tour guide and other places.

The chapter reciting her quasi-obituary for Jerry Falwell (she was honest about her embarrassment about Falwell’s fundamentalist ranting and pleasure not to have to explain him anymore as a fellow “evangelical”) and the section in which she explains her testimony that doesn’t fit the prescribed order both had me chuckling over my wet burrito at La Cantina Grill.

I found Falsani to be someone who approached things the way Keller would appreciate; avoiding antagonism, asking questions, looking for truth. I also read her as someone who finds joy inhabiting my urban world — not in the inner city sense of my community, but a Chi-town evangelical institution grad (her at Wheaton, me at MBI — both weirdly, grudgingly respected institutions in beer-drinking brat-eatin Chicaaago) who is is most comfortable being whatever kind of Christian is the opposite of loud-mouthed and predictable. She rocks out to my favorite radio station, gets spiritual insight from Lin Brehmer (local old school rock dj-philosopher) and quotes U2, Martin Luther (for the title) and many others.

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Thanks, Joel!