Nadia Bolz-Weber

“Unitarians just don't talk much about our need for God's grave. They have a higher opinion of human beings than I have…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“And the strangeness of the good news is that, like those in Matthew 25 who sat before the throne and said Huh?…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“There's something about courting the darkness that makes some people see the truth in raw, twisted ways, as though they were shining…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“The Kingdom of God is a tricky concept, and I was always taught it referred to our heavenly reward for being good,…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“But our sexual and gender expressions are as integral to who we are as our religious upbringings are.”

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“The eunuch sought God despite the fact that he had heard that there was no love for him there.”

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“The life changing seems always bracketed by the mundane. The quotidian wrapped around the profound, like plain brown paper concealing the emotional…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“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

“Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“He said that there would be more information available in the narthex. I leaned over to Matthew and whispered, "The Narthex? Isn't…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“As a teenager, I loved how I looked in the outfit of using drugs and exercising poor judgement. I had tried it…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“This is exactly, when it comes down to it, why most people do not believe in grace. It is fucking offensive.”

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“It’s God saying, “I love the world too much to let your sin define you and be the final word. I am…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“The last shall be first and the first shall be last.” This is exactly, when it comes down to it, why most…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“And always, always, it is worth it to sing alleluia in defiance of the devil, who surely hates the sound of it.”

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“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

“Every human community will disappoint us, regardless of how well-intentioned or inclusive.”

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“Of course, Mary Magdalene would have very little tolerance for the Christian platitudes and vapid optimism that seem to swirl around these…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“God’s grace is a gift that is freely given to us. We don’t earn a thing when it comes to God’s love,…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“When these kinds of things happen in my life, things that are so clearly filled with more beauty or redemption or reconciliation…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“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

“And anyway, it has been my experience that what makes us the saints of  God is not our ability to be saintly…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“I carried a bravado about my drinking like I was a hero of debauchery. But on that Christmas Day, I felt like…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“Getting sober never felt like I had pulled myself up by my own spiritual bootstraps. It felt instead like I was on…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber