Thank You, Nadia...A Heart-Changing Evening
I spent last evening listening to the remarkable Nadia Bolz-Weber read from and talk about her book- plus field questions from the audience in a way that was open, genuine, self-effacing, and thoroughly, totally Lutheran. We are of the same "tribe", she and I...though we came to it in completely antithetical ways. But I so resonated with her statement that Lutheran theology resonated with her own experience ...that its hallmark of grace, of its balance between law and gospel, of its insistence (coming directly from Martin Luther) that we are each and all both saint and sinner ring true for her- as they so for me. And I loved her emphasis on "doing theology in the first person"...speaking of God and speaking of your life together, with honesty, being just who you are. I had read her book, Pastrix, had been following her blog, had even seen several of her talks via YouTube, and I must confess that I had some reservations about this admittedly-unusua...