Sin Bravely, Maggie Rowe
Sin Bravely, Maggie Rowe
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Sin Bravely
A Memoir of Spiritual Disobedience

Author: Maggie Rowe

Narrator: Maggie Rowe

Unabridged: 9 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/28/2017

Synopsis

As a young girl, Maggie Rowe took the idea of salvation very seriously. Growing up in a moderately religious household, her fear of eternal damnation turned into a childhood terror that drove her to become an outrageously dedicated Born-again Christian—regularly slinging Bible verses in cutthroat scripture memorization competitions and assaulting strangers at shopping malls with the "good news" that they were going to hell.

Finally, at nineteen, crippled by her fear, she checked herself in to an Evangelical psychiatric facility—and that is where her journey really began. Surrounded by a ragtag cast of characters, including a former biker meth-head struggling with anger management issues, a set of identical twins tormented by erotic fantasies, a World War II veteran who insists that he's only "locked up for a tune-up," and a warm and upbeat chronic depressive who becomes the author's closest ally, Maggie launches a campaign to, in the words of Martin Luther, "Sin bravely in order to know the forgiveness of God."

Told in a voice both funny and heartfelt, Sin Bravely is a tour de force, voice-driven debut that examines how one woman finally found the middle ground between Heaven and Hell.

About Maggie Rowe

For the last fifteen years, Maggie Rowe has performed in and produced the Comedy Central stage show sit 'n spin, Los Angeles's longest-running spoken word show, having taken over the reigns from creator Jill Soloway in 2002. She has written for Arrested Development and Flaked for Netflix. She cowrote the screenplay for and directed the New Age religious mockumentary Bright Day and is the creator of the theatrical satires Hollywood Hellhouse and Hollywood Purity Ball. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, writer Jim Vallely.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jan

This was an uncomfortable read for me--especially the first third because it made me think hard about the message Evangelical Christians routinely offer and how it can be received and perceived by some. Maggie was brought up in a church going family. She was bright, sensitive, precocious and very aw......more

Goodreads review by Truman32

Sin Bravely: My Great Escape from Evangelical Hell is not nearly as funny nor as brave as it thinks it is. Maggie Rowe suffers from a type of mental sickness that makes her fear eternal damnation. Since she was a little girl she has felt that her actions/thoughts/misbehaviors would bring her divine......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth

I just finished this book and I miss it already. Much of Maggie's experience parallels mine, as a literal-minded, truth-seeking child with perfectionist tendencies making my way through an Evangelical upbringing. As her story unfolded, I recognized scripture verses I thought I'd forgotten and though......more

Goodreads review by Laura

3.5 The subtitle of this book is misleading. It's not a memoir of spiritual disobedience, but of spiritual anxiety. The title and blurb lead me to believe that before too long, Maggie would come across the idea of sinning bravely, and we would hear of her spiritual transformation through purposeful......more

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