About the Author

Dr. Jacqueline Bussie is an award-winning author, professor, theologian, public speaker, and student of life in all its messy beauty. She is a much sought after speaker and workshop facilitator. Her most recent book Love Without Limits (2018) won three major international awards: the 2020 IAN Outstanding Religion Book of the Year Award, the 2020 IAN 3rd Place Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, and the Reader’s Favorite Bronze Medal Award for Christian Living.  Her previous book Outlaw Christian (2016) won the 2017 Gold Medal Illumination Award for Christian Living and received a coveted starred review from Publishers Weekly.
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An active servant-leader in the ELCA, Jacqueline spent the last twenty years teaching religion to undergraduates at ELCA colleges and and serving as the founding director of the Forum on Faith and Life For Concordia College. Every day Jacqueline is amazed and grateful that she gets to 1) write and tell her own story; 2) empower other people to write and tell theirs, and 3) accompany marvelous people like you on your journey of faith, hope and healing.
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The love of God crosses all boundaries. Every. Single. One.

How can we overthrow hate and heal hurt in today’s divided world? According to Jacqueline A. Bussie, by learning to love as God does—without limits or exceptions. In Love Without Limits, Bussie imparts practical solutions for people who yearn to love across difference. Through poignant memoir, engaging theological reflection, inspiring stories of friendship, creative readings of scripture, and shout-outs to some of love’s unsung heroes, Bussie challenges readers to answer God’s call to practice a love so vast that it excludes no one.



Praise for LOVE WITHOUT LIMITS

“In this fine memoir-cum-guide to interfaith dialogue, Bussie…challenges Christians to practice peace-building across political, gender, racial, and religious lines…This is a must-read for all Christians interested in inclusivity for their communities.” ––Publishers Weekly

“In a world as balkanized as the one in which we find ourselves, Bussie’s words light the way for practicing ‘a love so deep it subverts the social order, so radical it scandalizes the powerful, so vast that it excludes no one.'” —Chicago Tribune

Love Without Limits is a beautiful, exquisitely written, and deeply moving proclamation of revolutionary love. A courageous triumph of solidarity over censorship and hate.” —Valarie Kaur, founder of the Revolutionary Love Project

“In Love without Limits, Jacqueline Bussie offers us a no-nonsense, no-excuses, love-without-exceptions instruction manual. Written with a warmth and earnestness that invite readers to settle in and stay, this book gives us permission to think in new ways about old stories while reminding us to open up to loving even the most rejected parts of ourselves and others. Love without Limits is folksy, generous, and wise.” –-Sheri Reynolds, author of The Rapture of Canaan

“Jacqueline Bussie is one of the most insightful and inviting thinkers in the church today. I love the way she seamlessly integrates head and heart into this vibrant treatise on what has always been at the center of Christianity and yet has so often been ignored: love.” –Nadia Bolz-Weber, author of Pastrix and Accidental Saints 

“If you believe, as I do, that love is the heart of Jesus’ message and should be the point of the Christian life, then you’ll be surprised to see how few books there are that aim specifically to help you become a better practitioner of love. And you’ll be thrilled when a book like this comes along—super well-written, really inspiring and practical, deeply engaged with scripture, and joyfully celebrating the primacy of love.”  —Brian D. McLaren, author of The Great Spiritual Migration

“This is a book about love, but not just any love. It’s about cosmic love, deep-faith love, break-down-walls love. Every page pulses with that same radical love. Read it and let the contents pour into you and make you better.”   —Eboo Patel, author of Acts of Faith

“I want to press this book into the hands of every Christian who has despaired of our faith being choked by narrow moralism, prejudice, nationalism, and all those who sought Jesus and were greeted by a door slammed in the face instead of a seat at his banquet table. I want to stock it in every church pew where I’ve heard something contrary to the love of Christ preached. Bussie’s words reminded me of how vast and expansive Christ was (is)—and that Christian love shook the earth precisely because it extends to every single person without exception, even to me. Bussie’s a gifted preacher with the voice of a friend who will grab you by the shoulders, look you in the eye, and say, no matter what your family of origin says, no matter what your church says, no matter what you say, you are beloved. Full stop.  —Jessica Mesman Griffith, author of Love and Salt, curator of the online spiritual community Sick Pilgrim

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A solid exhortation to live outside the sphere of hackneyed holiness…Excellent exegeses…Authentic Insights…Bussie piles on stories of hope to countermand lies such as ‘nothing ever changes’…Bussie writes with poetry, pathos and pepper.” – Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
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2017 Gold Medal Illumination Award Winner.

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