An Evening with the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber

Join us as United Campus Ministry welcomes the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber to Aggieland.

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Doors open @ 6:30 p.m. | Dinner served @ 7 p.m.

A New York Times bestselling author, the Reverend Nadia Bolz-Weber has been called “a pastor for America’s outsiders” (BBC). She will be the first to attest that she doesn’t look like most people’s idea of a pastor, but the community of faith she founded in Denver, Colorado—House for All Sinners and Saints—is a haven for a diverse community seeking affirmation and acceptance. Krista Tippett, who interviewed Bolz-Weber for her public radio show On Being, described House for All Sinners and Saints this way: “These days, convicted felons and elected officials join teenagers with pink hair at this church and others like it—redefining what church is—and with a deep reverence for tradition.”

But Bolz-Weber’s gospel is not just for spiritual seekers. In a time when institutions of every kind—governments, corporations, universities, churches—are struggling to exert influence and maintain relevance, her House for All Sinners and Saints continues to thrive, especially among Millennials. In her books and talks, she makes the deeply felt argument that honesty and human connection are key to creating and sustaining community.

In the New York Times bestselling memoir Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint, Bolz-Weber “takes readers on the engaging and accessible journey” (Booklist) from her roots as a hard-drinking standup comic to an ordained Lutheran pastor. The book earned raves from everyone from the lead singer of the Violent Femmes to the Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, who said, “Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber speaks the truth of our humanity that we too often want to deny.”

Earlier this year, the Rev. Bolz-Weber was called by the Rocky Mountain Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in association with St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church in the PC(USA), and the New Beginnings Worshipping Community inside The Denver Women's Prison to become the first installed Pastor of Public Witness for the ELCA.