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We Can Do Hard Things

257. How to Finally Forgive with Nadia Bolz-Weber

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.841.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Where does all our suffering come from and how can we free ourselves? Pastor, author, and speaker, Nadia Bolz-Weber, discusses how she finally became healed and whole enough to choose romantic love from freedom instead of desperation. With her characteristic raw honesty, Nadia shares that the secret to her healing has been “honestly, a lot of pain.” Plus, Nadia leads Abby to a heartbreaking, cathartic moment of clarity – and shares a blessing that she wrote for Abby and all queer people. About Nadia: Nadia Bolz-Weber is an ordained Lutheran Pastor; founder of House for All Sinners & Saints in Denver; host of The Confessional podcast; and author of three NYT bestselling memoirs: Pastrix, Accidental Saints, and SHAMELESS. Nadia writes and speaks about personal failings, recovery, grace, faith, and really whatever the hell else she wants to. She always sits in the corner with the other weirdos, and she can be found a couple days a week inside the Denver women’s prison where she is a volunteer chaplain. https://thecorners.substack.com/ IG: @sarcasticlutheran To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, Pod Squad get ready for today. I am so delighted, already full of energy and wondering what's going to happen in the next hour because we have one of my faves, Nadia Bolt's Weber, here today.

0:27.1

Nadia is an ordained Lutheran pastor,

0:29.3

founder of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, host of the Confessional Podcast,

0:34.7

an author of three New York Times best-selling memoirs, Pastrix, Accidental Saints,

0:40.0

and Shameless. All of her books are so flipping good. She always sits in the

0:46.2

corner with the other weirdos, one of the many reasons we love her so much and

0:50.4

she can be found a couple days a week inside the Den for Women's

0:54.4

Prison where she is a volunteer chaplain. Nadia, welcome.

1:00.3

Hello.

1:01.3

And the corner substack. Don't forget the corner-sou-sou-sou- Yes,

1:04.0

Yes, if you want to get her writing now, you have to subscribe to the Corner sub-stack,

1:10.0

which we're going to talk about in a minute because this is interesting

1:13.7

what's going on with you right now Nadia. First I want to tell you a little story.

1:16.9

Okay. The first time I met you in real life was at something called the

1:22.0

Wild Goose Festival. So Abby I've explained

1:25.1

this to you as kind of like a Jesusy woodstock like a mini Jesusy woodstock.

1:30.4

So the first time I went to Wild Goose, I was referred to in the community as the one who wore heels.

1:41.5

Okay? Because it was in the mud rain, like a festival type thing.

1:47.8

And so people kept saying, oh, is she the one who wore heels to this?

1:51.1

And that is true that I did.

1:52.5

Why?

1:53.5

I didn't understand.

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