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

I was so wrapped up in my expectations not being met that I missed everything that did happen.

So the next day, the next afternoon, I'm in Chicago, and I'm going through this PowerPoint presentation for the pastors, and they're loving it.

I'm like, blessing of the bicycles and the Elvis, and I tell them, like, every year on Reformation Day, we do a selling of indulgences bake sale, and they're laughing, and...

And then I tell them how at House for All Sinners and Saints we have what's called an open table, which means everybody without exception is invited to receive bread and wine at communion.

And how we have this young queer girl who spent a year in our community

and having this open table and she traveled to Michigan to visit her parents and I get this phone call from her on a Sunday morning and she's weeping and I'm like, baby, what's going on?

She goes, I'm at my parents' church and they're doing communion and I can't take it.

And she was just like destroyed by it.

And I talked to her for a bit, and I said, do you mind if I share our conversation with some folks at church tonight?

And she said, that was fine.

So I tell some of the people at church about Rachel, and without skipping a beat, Stuart goes, we'll just have to take her communion to the airport when she gets home, I guess.

And so at 9 o'clock at night on a Tuesday, 10 of us show up to Denver International Airport with bread and wine and like a chauffeur sign that said, Rachel Pater, child of God.

So I'm telling them this story.

Now they're crying.

And I thought, well, if I think church should be a place for your whole self, I should tell them the whole story.

And I took a deep breath and I said, and last night I cried myself to sleep because I felt like a failure.

and I told them the whole thing.

The cotton candy machine, the healing I didn't notice, the bitch slap from the Holy Spirit, the cotton candy, everything.

And the coolest thing was at lunch later, they didn't treat me like an expert.

They treated me like a sister and a colleague, and they regaled me with stories of their own failure.

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