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"Salvation on the Small Screen is fast, fresh, funny and filled with surprising twists. It is easy to point out what's wrong with a broad satirical target like televangelists. It is tougher to watch closely, with patience, empathy, and openness. Yet, Nadia Bolz-Weber and her eclectic companions find the divine even amidst the most painful religious programming. Now that is miraculous --Craig Detweiler, PhD, director, Reel Spirituality Institute, Fuller Theological Seminary and author, Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century


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"The concept is as clever as it is brave: Spend 24 hours watching `Christian television' programming, and bring friends. Talk about what you see. Let hilarity and poignancy ensue. Lutheran minister Nadia Bolz-Weber gives us a wincing and winsome look through those cable channels that many ignore and many others make their spiritual bread and butter. With Salvation on the Small Screen? in hand, the reader can thoughtfully go `behind the label' and check out the ingredients of the oddly-influential Christian media. Bon appetit!"

Product Details

  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Seabury Books (September 1, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1596270861
  • ISBN-13: 978-1596270862
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #239,415 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Nadia Serves Up a Delightful Televangelist TV dinner, September 26, 2008
Nadia Bolz Weber boldly goes where few Protestants have gone before--the prosperity palace. As she samples their titillating theological tidbits, she critiques the ungodly excesses displayed by these religious rock, while also noting the lessons mainliners can glean from these seemingly saccharine shows. Throughout Salvation on the Small Screen, she reminds me that even though TBN shows may be sinful and shameful to one's spiritual health (and they are, trust me on this one), we're all brothers and sisters in Christ. And like these prosperity preachers, I too have fallen short of the glory of God and need Jesus as my savior.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Christian Television Without Pity, December 8, 2008
By WitherWing (Naknek, AK USA) - See all my reviews
It shouldn't be too surprising that a self-identified progressive Lutheran seminary grad and her (usually) mainline and/or agnostic friends find TBN to be strange, offensive, unintentionally hilarious, and at times quite touching. I work in the "Christian-Industrial Complex" she talks about and go through the same motions when watching.

Nadia and her friends witness 24-hours of America's most watched Christian TV network. Through this, she finds massive sets and smiling preachers professing their love to viewers they'll never meet. She also finds out that "commercial free" programming can include selling a lot of bizarre trinkets and kitch. She witnesses hours of asking for money, singing oddly phrased choruses, honorary Doctorates, cheap puppet shows and cartoons, a few confusing prophecies about Israel, and Ann Coulter.

Like numerous other books recently deconstructing pop-Evangelicalism for outsiders (Rapture Ready, Churched, Body Piercing Saved My Life - to name a few), there is the feel of a tourist here. She latches on to what is initially odd or novel and compares it to what she considers normal at home. She asks questions about methodology, and wonders aloud if any one actually believe what they are saying. There are times when her questioning and comments seem like a long pat on the back for her liturgical, "progressive" Lutheran tradition, and some preconceived notions that shatter seem telling. At one point she actually seems stunned that a show with Pentecostal roots has an insightful, balanced look at race relations - as if that issue belongs to her particular bent. On the other hand, she tends to admit things like this, and spends time wondering aloud if her Lutheran tradition is limited due to its desire to separate from Evangelicals. The result is a graceful view of TBN and those on the network -- critical, but finding hope and ministry in the midst of a lot of silliness.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Wit, October 20, 2008
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I read about this book on a blog and decided to order it from Amazon. I was not disappointed. The author writes with wit, and the kind of humor that is lacking in today's writing. She also raises some very good questions that have needed to be raised.

What's more, and this is something you don't see every day, she writes with a humility that's brave enough to point out the "shortcomings" of her own traditions while analyzing others.

She articulated very well so many of the issues that I have had in the past with Church TV.

All in all, it was a very fresh approach. Humor, honesty, and humility. You don't often find those qualities successfully woven into one book.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fun read
While the premise lends itself to a superficial treatment (24 straight hours of watching religious programming), the author did a fine job of balancing perspectives. Read more
Published 7 months ago by non-fiction reader

5.0 out of 5 stars A unique and humorous work that may surprise you
What's Christian about Christian TV? "Salvation on the Small Screen?: 24 Hours of Christian Television" is the results of a social experiment from Nadia Bolz-Weber about her one... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Midwest Book Review

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting review - funny and provocative
The author and many friends spent 24 hours listening and commenting on TBN programs. Many religious statements from a variety of people of faith and of no faith made an... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Preston L. Johnson

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun and surprising read
Nadia Bolz-Weber is a tall, brash, heavily tattooed Lutheran pastor from Denver who speaks with the sarcastic delivery of a stand-up comic. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mort Coyle

5.0 out of 5 stars Hysterical and poignant at the same time
I met Nadia at the National Great Emergence conference in Memphis this weekend. She is lanky, a confessed ex comedian, with icon tattoos on her arm, and recently ordained by the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Chris Callahan

5.0 out of 5 stars even better than the real thing
Some of the memories my wife and I have of catching fleeting glimpses of TBN and other Christian TV include bizarre moments like a female televangelist interviewing an armless... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Dave Wainscott

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely a delight
In her first book, Bolz-Weber does what some might consider impossible: she combines theological reflection, prosperity gospel, elevated caffeine and sugar levels, and the effects... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Therese J. Colburn

5.0 out of 5 stars Provokingly Generous!
Nadia Bolz-Weber's first book, Salvation on the Small Screen?, is as provoking as it is gracious and as theological as it is humorous. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Timothy K. Snyder

5.0 out of 5 stars Educated, ironic, and honest!
Both heady and down to earth, reverent and cynical, "Salvation on the Small Screen?" paints an ironic yet truthful picture of Christianity's struggle with its own self. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Jason D. Kennedy

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the Read
Salvation on the Small Screen is hilarious, intelligent, and honest even when it's painful to admit that Trinity Broadcasting Network might not be entirely evil. Read more
Published 13 months ago by C. Schultz

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