Best of: House for All Sinners and Saints with Nadia Bolz-Weber

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In one of our most enthralling interviews we've had, Nadia Bolz-Weber tells us her story about faith and the founding of the House for All Sinners and Saints. Nadia was raised fundamental Christian, and her frustrations with organized religion later in life caused her 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. Take a listen to our latest episode to hear her compelling story and view on God and religion!

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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0:00.0	As you probably notice, this month we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting
0:04.6	some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical
0:09.4	strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve
0:14.4	personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get
0:18.5	recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook. What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. You know, my church is definitely this little island of misfit toys. These are just people who do not fit in other churches. And so they can almost be a little idealistic when they come to House for All Senators and Saints because they really get to be themselves. They don't have to check part of their personality or part of their story at the door. And they love that. And so we'll have these welcome to house brunches and people will go around the room.
0:54.5	You know, people have been there to the church for a while, show up too.
0:57.3	And we go around a circle and say, what drew you to this community or what keeps you here?
1:01.6	And it's great to hear it.
1:03.1	You know, everyone's like, the singing's incredible.
1:05.0	We're a cappella, you know, so they're like the singing or the community or whatever.
1:08.2	They go around the room.
1:08.9	It's always pretty standard. And then it ends with me. And I always say, man, I love hearing all that. And I love this church
1:15.5	too. But here's what I need you to hear me say. This church will disappoint you. At some point,
1:21.8	I will say something stupid and hurt your feelings or we will fail to meet your expectations.
1:27.7	So I just invite you on this side of that happening to decide if you're going to stick around
1:32.0	after it happens, because if you leave, you'll miss the way that grace can come in and fill in
1:37.3	those cracks left behind briar brokenness and create something new and beautiful.
1:41.5	And that's too beautiful to miss.
1:47.3	I'm Sreeny Rao, and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, where you get a window
1:51.8	into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements,
1:56.5	built thriving businesses, written bestselling books, and created insanely interesting art.
2:01.0	For more, check out our 500 episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com.
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