Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia Bolz-Weber (born April 22, 1969) is an American author, Lutheran minister and Mainline Protestant public theologian. She served as the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado, until July 8, 2018.

Bolz-Weber is known for her unusual approach to reaching others through her church. She has produced work in the church that scholar and writer Diana Butler Bass considers part of "a new Reformation".

Biography Bolz-Weber was born as Nadia Bolz and grew up in Colorado Springs in a fundamentalist Christian family.

Bolz-Weber began to acquire tattoos in 1986 at age 17. Those present on her arms mark the liturgical year and the story of the Gospel. She attended Pepperdine University briefly before dropping out and then moving to Denver. She says that she became an alcoholic and drug abuser and often felt like one of "society's outsiders".

By 1991, Bolz-Weber became sober and, as of 2020, has remained so for 28 years. She started her own church, the House for All Sinners and Saints, the name of which is often shortened to just 'House.' Bolz-Weber spends nearly twenty hours each week writing her weekly ten-minute sermon. She has given talks about how faith and feminism co-exist. As a feminist, in 2018 she called for women to send her their purity rings, to be melted down into a sculpture of a vulva which she regarded as representing the healing of the psychic damage induced by the 1990s purity movement. At the Makers conference on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2019, Bolz-Weber gave the sculpture to American feminist and political activist Gloria Steinem.

Personal life In 1996, she married Matthew Weber, a Lutheran pastor. They had met after she left a conservative form of Christianity and while Weber was a Lutheran seminary student. These and other aspects of her personal life were documented in her 2019 book, Shameless.

Books Salvation on the Small Screen?: 24 Hours of Christian Television. New York : Seabury Books, 2008. , Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of A Sinner and Saint. New York; Boston; Nashville : Jericho Books, 2014. , Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People. Convergent, 2016. , Shameless: A Sexual Reformation. Convergent Books, January 2019.. Cranky, Beautiful Faith: For Irregular (and Regular) People (Canterbury Press Norwich, 2022)