Nadia Bolz-Weber
Autor(a) de Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
About the Author
Nadia Bolz-Weber is a Luthern minister and the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado. She is a recovering alcoholic and a former stand-up comedian. Nadia is also a married mother of two. Her husband is a Luthern minister at a different congregation in Colorado. She mostrar mais is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Pastrix. Nadia has been featured on CNN and in the Washington Post, Bitch Magazine, NPR's Morning Edition, More Magazine, and the Daily Beast. Her work includes Salvation on the Small Screen?, The Hyphenateds, and her 2015 bestseller, Accidental Saints. mostrar menos
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Are there really churches like this? With a pastor and congregants like this? If so, what good news! I hem and haw a bit about my connection to faith communities because so much pain and misunderstanding festers there. Anyone who's been part of church, or stands close to someone that is, is church-damaged. But Nadia is clear-eyed about such realities and keeps going and pastoring anyway. Why? She believes that even in all the mess and hurt that is church -- made up of messy, wounded people as it is -- in fact, because of it, grace, mercy, and healing happen.
A bit like reading Anne Lamot in that honest, raw, surprising way, so much so that on occasion it was distracting. But I'll get over it. And check out Pastrix when it's back on the shelf.… (mais)