12 Facts About Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia Bolz-Weber was born on April 22,1969 and is an American author, Lutheran minister and public theologian.

Nadia Bolz-Weber 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.

Nadia Bolz-Weber has produced work in the church that scholar and writer Diana Butler Bass considers part of "a new Reformation".

Nadia Bolz-Weber began to acquire tattoos in 1986 at age 17.

Nadia Bolz-Weber attended Pepperdine University briefly before dropping out and then moving to Denver.

Nadia Bolz-Weber says that she became an alcoholic and drug abuser and often felt like one of "society's outsiders".

Nadia Bolz-Weber felt called to service in 2004 when she was asked to eulogize a friend who had died by suicide.

Nadia Bolz-Weber started her own church, the House for All Sinners and Saints, the name of which is often shortened to just 'House.

Nadia Bolz-Weber's church is welcoming to people with drug addiction, depression, and even those who are not believers of her faith.

Nadia Bolz-Weber spends nearly twenty hours each week writing her weekly ten-minute sermon.

Nadia Bolz-Weber has given talks about how faith and feminism co-exist.

At the Makers conference on Valentine's Day, February 14,2019, Nadia Bolz-Weber gave the sculpture to American feminist and political activist Gloria Steinem.