“The Bible is not God. The Bible is simply the cradle that holds Christ. Anything in the Bible that does not hold… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. We… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“But our sexual and gender expressions are as integral to who we are as our religious upbringings are.” — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“The Bible had been the weapon of choice in the spiritual gladiatorial arena of my youth. I knew how, wielded with intent… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us in our sin and… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“the Christian faith, while wildly misrepresented in so much of American culture, is really about death and resurrection. It’s about how God… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“God's grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a source… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“My former bishop Allan Bjorberg once said that the greatest spiritual practice isn't yoga or praying the hours or living in intentional… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“Unitarians just don't talk much about our need for God's grave. They have a higher opinion of human beings than I have ever felt… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“And the strangeness of the good news is that, like those in Matthew 25 who sat before the throne and said Huh? When did… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“There's something about courting the darkness that makes some people see the truth in raw, twisted ways, as though they were shining a black… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“The Kingdom of God is a tricky concept, and I was always taught it referred to our heavenly reward for being good, which, now… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“But our sexual and gender expressions are as integral to who we are as our religious upbringings are.” — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“The eunuch sought God despite the fact that he had heard that there was no love for him there.” — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“The life changing seems always bracketed by the mundane. The quotidian wrapped around the profound, like plain brown paper concealing the emotional version of… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. We die and… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and even the… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“He said that there would be more information available in the narthex. I leaned over to Matthew and whispered, "The Narthex? Isn't that a… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“As a teenager, I loved how I looked in the outfit of using drugs and exercising poor judgement. I had tried it on, spun… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“This is exactly, when it comes down to it, why most people do not believe in grace. It is fucking offensive.” — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
