About the Book:

This isn’t your grandma’s Jesus. This book is for those who need a Jesus who was:

•  a fighter

•  a ferocious personality

•  a man of fire and courage

•  a man who had hell in his blood and mad love in his heart.

This book is for a rare class of athletes: the fiercest and most intense. It is for the lions, the wild horses, and the badasses, who naturally possess the strongest potential for great leadership.

Badass Jesus will powerfully challenge your spirituality. Focused on Jesus’ core principle rather than all the differing beliefs of Christian churches, Badass Jesus offers a simple new vision of intense faith: Jesus’ ethos of extreme self-sacrifice mixed with his 1st and Greatest Commandments of radical, noble love – all dedicated to serving God and changing the world.

About the Author:

Sven Erlandson, M.Div., B.A., is an internationally-respected author, motivational speaker, college religion and athletics lecturer, former college Head Strength & Conditioning Coach, former Division I athlete and record-setting power lifter. He was the first pastor ever in the Lutheran Church to be hired as a full-time Sports and Recreation Pastor. He has worked with thousands of athletes of all levels, as well as coaches, universities, small colleges, churches, pastors and hungry spiritual seekers.

Erlandson excels at translating spiritual concepts into the language of athletes and spiritual but not religious people. Most of his time is spent consulting athletes and coaches on maximizing their mental and physical performances.

Erlandson literally wrote the book – the very first book – on the spiritual but not religious movement in America, and is credited with coining that term (Spiritual But Not Religious: A Call to Religious Revolution in America). He has also written the critically-acclaimed Rescuing God from Christianity and The 7 Evangelical Myths, as well as numerous articles on spirituality, politics, culture, and parenting. His high-powered and counter-intuitive approach to spiritual life has been inspiring younger generations for years.