Is Society Losing Its Soul? Nadia Bolz-Weber on Faith, Outrage, and Redemption

Soul Boom

Rainn Wilson

Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Lutheran pastor and best-selling author Nadia Bolz-Weber joins Rainn Wilson to discuss why modern life feels so disconnected and overwhelming. They explore the paradoxes of faith, the crisis of community in America, and how the pursuit of comfort and convenience might be eroding our humanity. Nadia shares her radical insights on grace, forgiveness, and why she still believes in organized religion despite its flaws. Plus, they dive into the spiritual consequences of the algorithm-driven world we live in and why true healing requires something greater than ourselves. Nadia Bolz-Weber is a Lutheran pastor, New York Times best-selling author, and the founder of House for All Sinners and Saints, a progressive church in Denver. Known for her unfiltered, no-nonsense approach to theology, she speaks and writes about faith, grace, addiction, and the power of community with raw honesty and humor. More Nadia: Substack: https://thecorners.substack.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/sarcasticlutheran Website: https://www.nadiabolz-weber.com/ MERCH OUT NOW! https://soulboom.com/store God-Shaped Hole Mug: https://bit.ly/GodShapedHoleMug Sign up for our newsletter! https://soulboom.substack.com SUBSCRIBE to Soul Boom!! https://bit.ly/Subscribe2SoulBoom Watch our Clips: https://bit.ly/SoulBoomCLIPS Watch WISDOM DUMP: https://bit.ly/WISDOMDUMP Follow us! Instagram: http://instagram.com/soulboom TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@soulboom Sponsor Soul Boom: [email protected] Work with Soul Boom: [email protected] Send Fan Creations, Questions, Comments: [email protected] Produced by: Kartik Chainani Executive Produced by: Ford Bowers, Samah Tokmachi Companion Arts Production Supervisor: Mike O'Brien Voicing Change Media Theme Music by: Marcos Moscat

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0:00.0	You're listening to Sobu.
0:03.0	I want to start with this one.
0:05.0	Why the f*** are you a Lutheran pastor?
0:08.0	I'm just an unconvicted felon.
0:11.0	I was raised fundamentalist Christian, did a whole bunch of wika and goddess stuff for which I'm really grateful.
0:17.0	I needed to come back to my original symbol system. Lutheran theology is based in
0:23.8	paradox. It felt accurate. It didn't feel aspirational. The point of gravity in Lutheran theology is grace.
0:32.3	We need a power greater than ourselves to restore us to sanity. That's grace.
0:44.0	Hey there, it's me, Rain Wilson, and I want to dig into the human experience.
0:48.5	I want to have conversations about a spiritual revolution.
0:51.9	Let's get deep with our favorite thinkers, friends, and entertainers
0:54.9	about life, meaning, and idiocy. Welcome to the Soul Boom podcast.
1:06.7	Nadia, you give me hope for the entirety of Christianity.
1:11.2	That's a heavy burden.
1:13.1	It's a cross to bear.
1:14.8	So to speak.
1:16.2	We're both in recovery.
1:17.4	We're both people of faith.
1:18.9	And there is something really powerful about community.
1:25.3	Community is something that we have really fucked up in America these days.
1:31.0	And people are, you know, as we know, for the last 20, 30 years, like, you know, I'm spiritually
1:37.6	open and curious and agnostic, but I could never be a part of an organized religion and
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