The House for All Saints and Sinners With Nadia Bolz Weber

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 SaintsHer experience being raised as a fundamentalist ChristianDealing in an environment where you don’t fit inThe dissonance between what we’re told and what we experienceChoices we have in response to the circumstances of our livesNadia’s deep commitment to being as honest as she can The power of vulnerability and telling the truths about yourselfA recurring experience of death and resurrection Why we don’t learn and grow when life is free of problemsLearning how not to judge our suffering and how to release itHow to have authority in a community full of people suspicious of authorityThe freedom in not being an idealist when it comes to humansPersonal 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. Subscribe for ad-free interviews and bonus episodes https://plus.acast.com/s/the-unmistakable-creative-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.