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Bolz-Weber’s liberal, foulmouthed articulation of Christianity speaks to fed-up believers
The Washington Post ^ | November 3, 2013 | Michelle Boorstein

Posted on 11/04/2013 3:18:02 PM PST by EveningStar

AUSTIN — Nadia Bolz-Weber bounds into the University United Methodist Church sanctuary like a superhero from Planet Alternative Christian. Her 6-foot-1 frame is plastered with tattoos, her arms are sculpted by competitive weightlifting and, to show it all off, this pastor is wearing a tight tank top and jeans.

Looking out at the hundreds of people crowded into the pews to hear her present the gospel of Jesus Christ, she sees: Dockers and blazers. Sensible shoes. Grandmothers and soccer moms. Nary a facial piercing.

To Bolz-Weber’s bafflement, this is now her congregation: mainstream America.

These are the people who put her memoir near the top of the New York Times bestseller list the week it came out in September. They are the ones who follow her every tweet and Facebook post by the thousands, and who have made the Lutheran minister a budding star for the liberal Christian set.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; austintx; bolzweber; christianity; elca; liberalism; lutheran; nadiabolzweber; religion
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To: SoConPubbie

Frightening...Satan usually disguises himself better


21 posted on 11/04/2013 4:00:44 PM PST by ghost of nixon
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To: EveningStar

She seems to say Christians are hypocrites when she is using the sins of her congregation she hears about in counselling and confession to blackmail their silence in typical kgb style liberal moralization.

this is one vile creature.


22 posted on 11/04/2013 4:04:06 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: RginTN

She has all the tatoo thug Obama concept, lesbian genocidist, telling the congregation to shut up about her abuses and embrace of sin, blackmailing on her knowledge of their misdeeds she peddles and through bully pulpit.


23 posted on 11/04/2013 4:06:10 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: trisham; Charles Henrickson

egads


24 posted on 11/04/2013 4:07:37 PM PST by GeronL
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To: dennisw

Typical CPS witchery prejudging her audience. This is a total farce if it were not so tragic. This woman is a pedophile and unborn murderer.


25 posted on 11/04/2013 4:08:09 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: lavaroise

pedophile?

I didn’t want to go to the site


26 posted on 11/04/2013 4:09:20 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Exactly.


27 posted on 11/04/2013 4:12:17 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: GeronL

I am saying her style of preaching into thugging her audience into silence regarding her embrace of exploitation is typical pedophile playbook to raise guilt in the child preyed upon.


28 posted on 11/04/2013 4:15:44 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: lavaroise

Right. I get it.

I don’t understand why people would attend a “church” like that in the first place.


29 posted on 11/04/2013 4:18:51 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Me neither. Either they are mazochists or they partake in this saddism.

What is clear is that she is damaged material and she is on her “anti-phobia” war path of punishing whoever does not like the smell or taste of her looks resulting from her damaging lifestyle.

This is the seduction angle. What is a child supposed to do? We cannot even pinch our noses even if she was decent looking during her obvious self exhibition at the pulpit.

Who is truly hypocrite? Certainly the exhibitionist wants to attract “positive” attraction through various visual or scent based fragrances. This woman is a desperate whore and pimp style exploiter.


30 posted on 11/04/2013 4:25:55 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: GeronL
I don’t understand why people would attend a “church” like that in the first place.

That's a good thing. Be very thankful.
31 posted on 11/04/2013 4:28:54 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: GeronL
egads

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To be polite, yes. Our society has devolved into something that many of us would never have imagined.

32 posted on 11/04/2013 4:32:32 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: RightGeek

” “liberal” Lutherans descend to freak shows.” ????

I do not see anything linking this freak to Lutherans, although I would not overly surprised if one of her ilk became manifest in an ELCA venue.


33 posted on 11/04/2013 4:43:09 PM PST by Elsiejay
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To: EveningStar

Wow, the WaPo really has no standards whatsoever.


34 posted on 11/04/2013 5:05:17 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Elsiejay
Last page of the article:

Four years and a seminary degree later, Bolz-Weber founded what today is casually called House. It’s a start-up of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, with an “anti-excellence, pro-participation” policy. It meets in the parish hall of an Episcopal church.

Beware: more gag inducing smarmyness follows.

35 posted on 11/04/2013 5:07:27 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: EveningStar

New Age kook with a butch haircut. She could work for Maobama. Bob


36 posted on 11/04/2013 5:10:06 PM PST by alstewartfan ("If I had known last summer... I'd have never set my foot inside this bleak and bitter land." Al S)
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To: Da Coyote

The WaPo isn’t the only one posting articles about her.

My hometown paper, The Orange County Register, had one on her today.


37 posted on 11/04/2013 5:16:04 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

“Hey, everyone! Look at me! And buy my book!”


38 posted on 11/04/2013 5:29:37 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What happened to my tagline??)
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To: Da Coyote
I'm not shitting you. She's a known media item. Don't be surprised if she shows up on 60 Minutes and the talk show circuit, if she hasn't already.
39 posted on 11/04/2013 5:32:10 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Many mansions ... many mansions ...


40 posted on 11/04/2013 5:41:04 PM PST by x
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