Nadia Bolz Weber

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123 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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The Moth · Cotton Candy and Revolutionary Rides: The Moth Radio Hour · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

And it started to feel like every Sunday I was throwing my own birthday party and waiting to see who liked me enough to show up.

And then I was like, it's not supposed to be about me, it's supposed to be about God, and then I felt worse.

And it was rough.

We would have maybe 50 people on a Sunday, but during the summer, the numbers just started getting really low.

And we ended up not getting more than 35 people on a Sunday during the summer.

And so...

The day before I was going to Chicago to keynote that pastor's conference as an expert, I found myself single-handedly trying to get a cotton candy machine in the back of my Honda.

And my back was hurting, and the reason is because I had just come from Costco, and I had lifted all these cases of soda, and enough burgers to feed like 80 people, and an industrial bag of Doritos, and I'd put it all in my Honda, when I realized

hey, we've got to try and get people back, I remembered that there's this really quaint tradition in the Lutheran Church called Rally Day.

Rally Day is when you're trying to get all the families back for the start of Sunday school after everyone's been traveling through the summer.

And so you have like a little carnival for the kids.

And we didn't have any kids, and we didn't have Sunday school, but I was like, fuck it, we're having Rally Day.

LAUGHTER

And so I ended up setting everything up.

I made cool flyers.

I texted everyone in the congregation.

I was so excited to get all these people back, to really get a lot of people.

So I put the sodas on ice, and I put out the napkins in a little circle, and it was all fancy, and I got all the burgers ready.

And I put out a collection basket for donations, because it costs like hundreds of dollars for all this stuff.

stuff and it's just easily recoupable with that many people.

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