The Unmistakable Creative Podcast The House for All Saints and Sinners With Nadia Bolz Weber
Aug 13, 2014
50:28
Her frustrations with organized religion caused Nadia to create the kind of church that she wanted to attend. What started out as a living room congregation, eventually grew into the House for All Sinners and Saints.
In this episode, hear:
- How and why Nadia started the House for All Sinners and Saints
- Her experience being raised as a fundamentalist Christian
- Dealing in an environment where you don’t fit in
- The dissonance between what we’re told and what we experience
- Choices we have in response to the circumstances of our lives
- Nadia’s deep commitment to being as honest as she can
- The power of vulnerability and telling the truths about yourself
- A recurring experience of death and resurrection
- Why we don’t learn and grow when life is free of problems
- Learning how not to judge our suffering and how to release it
- How to have authority in a community full of people suspicious of authority
- The freedom in not being an idealist when it comes to humans
- Personal transformations that have occurred within the House for All Sinners and Saints
Nadia Bolz-Weber is a Lutheran minister who founded and is the pastor at the House for All Sinners and Saints, a mission congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado.
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