The House for All Saints and Sinners With Nadia Bolz Weber

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Her frustrations with organized religion caused Nadia 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.

In this episode, hear:

How and why Nadia started the House for All Sinners and Saints
Her experience being raised as a fundamentalist Christian
Dealing in an environment where you don’t fit in
The dissonance between what we’re told and what we experience
Choices we have in response to the circumstances of our lives
Nadia’s deep commitment to being as honest as she can
The power of vulnerability and telling the truths about yourself
A recurring experience of death and resurrection
Why we don’t learn and grow when life is free of problems
Learning how not to judge our suffering and how to release it
How to have authority in a community full of people suspicious of authority
The freedom in not being an idealist when it comes to humans
Personal transformations that have occurred within the House for All Sinners and Saints

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	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
0:07.8	idealistic when they come to house for all sinners and saints because they really get to be. They don't have to check part of
0:14.1	their personality or part of their story at the door and they love that and so
0:18.2	we'll have these welcome-to-house brunches and people will go around the room
0:22.0	you know people have been there to the church for a while I'll show up too and we go around a circle and say what drew you to this community or what keeps you here.
0:29.0	It's great to hear it, you know, everyone's like the singing's incredible, we're a cappella, you know, so everyone's like the singing is incredible we're
0:33.0	a cappella you know so they're like the singing or the community or whatever they go
0:36.3	around the room it's it's always pretty standard and that ends with me and I
0:40.4	always say man I love hearing all. And I love this church too.
0:43.9	But here's what I need you to hear me say.
0:46.8	This church will disappoint you.
0:48.8	At some point, I will say something stupid
0:51.5	and hurt your feelings,
0:52.9	or we will fail to meet your expectations.
0:55.6	So I just invite you on this side of that happening
0:58.4	to decide if you're gonna stick around after it happens,
1:01.1	because if you leave, you'll miss the way that Grace can come in and fill in those cracks left behind bray or brokenness and create something new and beautiful and that's too beautiful to mess. I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window
1:19.6	into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements,
1:24.4	built thriving businesses, written best selling books, and created insanely interesting art.
1:28.9	For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative.com.
1:33.0	May I have your attention please. can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
1:46.8	10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home
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