The Church Nautia Bolts Weber founded is called The House for All Sinners and Saints.

At six feet tall with spiky hair and a body covered in tattoos, she is an original voice in a loosely defined movement called the emerging church.

Across generations, theologies, and social passions, these are people reimagining Christianity.

Nadea Bolts Weber was raised in the conservative Church of Christ.

She spent years as an addict and a stand-up comic

before being surprised by what felt like a call to be a minister to people on the underside of life.

She created the House for All Sinners and Saints with eight people in her living room in Denver.

These days, convicted felons and elected officials joined

teenagers with pink hair at this church and others like it, redefining what church is

and with a deep reference for tradition.

I really feel strongly that you have to be deeply rooted in tradition in order to innovate

with integrity.

So for example, we celebrate the Easter Vigil where you start with a new fire and you light it and you have this Pascal candle and you parade enchanting and we have these baptisms and we have a Eucharist. And it's like amazing.

And then we end it when it's done.

We have a huge dance party.

And we feel like nothing says he has risen

like a chocolate fountain in the baptismal font, right? So we are taking these traditions and we're living them out

and then we're tweaking them in ways that are super meaningful or funny or relevant for us.

So it's always both for us. I'm Krista Tippett and this is on being.

Nariabaltz Weber is the author of a spiritual memoir called Pastrix.

I interviewed her at the 2013 Wild Goose Festival in Hot Springs, North Carolina, a gathering of the emerging church.

We spoke in an outdoor tent before hundreds of her fans on a vast campsite on a stormy day.

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