Nadia Bolz-Weber embarks upon being a full-time public theologian
Her last Sunday with the church she founded was earlier this summer.
The congregation at House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver prays over Nadia Bolz-Weber at her farewell service on July 8, 2018. Photo by Theresa S. Thames.
Nadia Bolz-Weber, a popular author and preacher, has left her role as pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints, the Denver church she founded a decade ago as a 39-year-old divinity student.
Bolz-Weber, who is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, will now focus on being a full-time public theologian. She hopes to increase her contact with secular audiences—“preaching to the Gentiles,” as she calls it.
“Most people aren’t going to show up to church on Sunday morning,” she said. “But it doesn’t mean that the message of the gospel can’t still be freeing to them.”
