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  • 4 days ago | thecorners.substack.com | Nadia Bolz-weber

    Anyone who has read my work can assure you that I am not native to the land of “give thanks and praise to God”. Even though for the last 1,800 years or so Christians have said these words when gathering around the table:Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our GodPeople: It is right to give our thanks and praise.

  • 1 week ago | progressivechristianity.org | Nadia Bolz-weber

    (answer: plant a tree) When I was a girl, my mother would wisely warn me, “Don’t get your hopes up. You don’t want to be disappointed”. She’s right, of course. She didn’t want me to build something up in my mind to the point that the reality of the thing could only disappoint. Getting your hopes up, she would tell me, is a sure way of being let down. I see where she’s coming from now that I have raised children of my own.

  • 2 weeks ago | thecorners.substack.com | Nadia Bolz-weber

    When I was a girl, my mother wisely would warn me, “don’t get your hopes up. You don’t want to be disappointed”. She’s right of course. She didn’t want me to build something up in my mind to the point that the reality of the thing could only disappoint. Getting your hopes up, she would tell me, is a sure way of being let down. I see where she’s coming from now that I have raised children of my own. I hate to see them disappointed and would love to help them manage to not have that experience.

  • 2 weeks ago | thecorners.substack.com | Nadia Bolz-weber

    (I preached this at the women’s prison a couple weeks ago and have been so busy with the tour that I’m just now getting around to posting it)Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Bethesda,which has five porticoes. In these lay many ill, blind, lame, and paralyzed people. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

  • 3 weeks ago | thecorners.substack.com | Nadia Bolz-weber

    I was 29 years old and 6 months pregnant with our first child when my (former) husband and I moved to dry land wheat farming country for his first job as a Lutheran pastor; a town of 5,000 people in Eastern Washington, several hours drive from anything like a yoga class. I remember thinking that since the town had a library, a gym and access to an NPR station, I could make a go of it. Maybe.

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