Posted by Nadia Bolz-Weber 1 day 3 hours ago
A few years ago I wrote a book about the experience of watching 24 consecutive hours of bad Christian television. My friends and family signed up for an hour each to watch along with me. The whole...
Posted by Nadia Bolz-Weber 2 weeks 5 days ago
… suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us.-Romans 5As many of you know, I have a regular spiritual practice of...
Posted by Nadia Bolz-Weber 20 weeks 1 day ago
In the church of my childhood it was taught that the “age of accountability” was somewhere around 12. To hit the age of accountability was to, like, spiritually go off of your parents’...
Posted by Nadia Bolz-Weber 35 weeks 1 hour ago
Were I one for object lessons I’d have brought a nice sharp axe with me into the pulpit today. Because it’s only once in awhile that we get to hear Jesus talk about brutal self-mutilation as a sign...
Posted by Nadia Bolz-Weber 38 weeks 1 day ago
A couple days ago I called my friend Kae so we could talk about this Gospel reading where Jesus takes a child in his arms and teaches the disciples that if they welcome a child in his name they...