Sinners - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:24:44 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Sinners - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 The house for all sinners and saints https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/11/06/the-house-for-all-sinners-and-saints/ Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:20:51 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=78654 Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber admits that she does not look — or act — like a typical church leader. Heavily tattooed and with a tendency to swear like a truck driver, Bolz-Weber was once a standup comic with a big drinking problem. But she was drawn to Lutheran theology, and when a group of friends Read more

The house for all sinners and saints... Read more]]> Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber admits that she does not look — or act — like a typical church leader. Heavily tattooed and with a tendency to swear like a truck driver, Bolz-Weber was once a standup comic with a big drinking problem.

But she was drawn to Lutheran theology, and when a group of friends asked her to give a eulogy for another friend who had committed suicide, Bolz-Weber discovered her calling.

Bolz-Weber tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that while addressing the crowd of "academics and queers and comics and recovering alcoholics" at the funeral, she realized: "These people don't have a pastor, and maybe that's what I'm supposed to do."

After going to seminary, Bolz-Weber founded a church in Denver called The House for All Sinners and Saints. Continue reading

 

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