The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Meg Lavery, Storyteller and Teacher
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I knew that I had to do something, I was going to have to let him know, but I didn't let him know. I became paralyzed with fear of telling him.” ...
Crushed Episode 1: The Feel-Good Story
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1998, fans across the country fell in love with the home run race as Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa chased baseball immortality. Sportswriter Joan Nie...
Rev. Jeff Grant, Minister and Co-Founder of Progressive Prison Ministries
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I was dressed up looking the part, but deep inside, I was just vacant. I just was not someone I was proud of anymore.” Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div. ...
Wilhelm Verwoerd, Researcher and Facilitator
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“We would also be very conscious of preaching anti-communism because people were saying that the African National Congress, you know, former Preside...
Nadia Bolz-Weber: "Panic on the Road to Jericho"
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I spent the entire time praying, and cursing, and praying and cursing.” Enjoy this bonus episode featuring a story Nadia Bolz-Weber told live at...
Elizabeth Lesser, Co-Founder of Omega Institute
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"And that was the moment ... where I was like, 'Girl, you can be a good mother and a happy, embodied woman, but you can't be a good mother and a liar....
Dr. Ray Christian, Storyteller and Fulbright Specialist
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"I got the super squad, the dirty dozen. Nobody needs to know what's going on here; I'm handling everything." Dr. Raymond Christian is a retired US A...
Joshua Harris, Storyteller and Author of "I Kissed Dating Goodbye"
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"If you can call people to a higher standard and tap into that fear, that ‘I'm not trying hard enough. I'm not really loving God enough. I'm not sac...
Claire Bidwell Smith, Grief Therapist and Author
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I just remember the feeling of having his arms around me, and I just felt so sickened that I had chosen this instead of my mother.” Claire Bidw...
Sarah Edmondson, Actor and Former Member of NXIVM
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I essentially told her to override that very important internal compass called your gut instinct. And I told her that that wasn't accurate. She was...
Maria Hinojosa, Journalist
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“You know, it comes down to a human error, but one of massive proportions because you're dealing with humanity and people's lives.” Maria is the ...
Amber J. Phillips, Storyteller and Reproductive Justice Activist
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“My attachment to success prevented me from doing the one thing that I value the most in my life, which is showing up for other black women.” Amb...
Jonathan Williams, Writer and Pastor
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“So what I ended up doing was being an incredible dick to my father. That's what I ended up doing.” Jonathan Williams is the Lead Pastor of Foref...
Joel Leon, Storyteller
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“But like being a father, I have to excel at that because a lot of people were expecting me not to.” Joel was born and raised in the Bronx. He is...
Kasey Anderson, Singer/Songwriter
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I truly believed that we had gotten Bruce Springsteen to commit to this benefit compilation. And so when I went to present that to the group, I wen...
Abby Wambach, Soccer Star
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I didn't feel like, oh, I need to call my lawyer or anything like that. I felt like I was totally with it. And then I did the breathalyzer and I ca...
Darin Strauss, Writer
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“And then all the emotions sort of flowed and I started crying in a way I don't think I have since or probably didn't before. I was just sort of hea...
Wilhelm Verwoerd, Researcher and Facilitator
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“We would also be very conscious of preaching anti-communism because people were saying that the African National Congress, you know, former Preside...
Forgiveness and Reconciliation with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“So it's not necessarily an overnight thing. And the only person, the only person or people who get to decide if a person should be forgiven, are th...
Melissa Febos, Memoirist
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“You know, it was like very hot - with that particular hotness of a terrible, terrible thing driven by desperation beyond the immediate situation.”...
Mishka Shubaly, Singer/Songwriter
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I held Nate's face as far away from me as I could so that he couldn't hit me. And then with my right hand I tried to destroy him” Mishka has an ...
Amy Brenneman, Movie Star
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I just was super hungry sexually. I was super out there. I just didn't want to be the victim. You know, I wanted to run the show. And I did.” Am...
R Eric Thomas, Columnist at Elle.com
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"So I just googled, 'how to tell if your boyfriend is a Satan worshiper.'" Eric lives in Baltimore with his husband. He’s a playwright, a columnist...
Theresa Thames, Dean of the Chapel at Princeton University
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“On the playground, people would be singing this song, Yo Mama's on Crack Rock. … And I love that song because I love chanting it and everything. ...
Chris Schuhmacher, Software Developer
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I came into software development relatively late in life. You know, I'm in my mid 40s and my training actually started in 2014 inside the walls of ...
Lenny Duncan, Lutheran Pastor
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I run into someone in Boulder, and they're like you want to do some speed? And I was like, ‘hell, yeah.’ And I do some speed, and I just fall o...
Megan Phelps-Roper, Former Member of Westboro Baptist Church
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“We would see something terrible that happened, like if there was an earthquake or a fire or floods or hurricanes, or a celebrity died. Everybody ar...
The Confessional Trailer
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first season of The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber will drop weekly starting April 21. Do you have something you’re not proud of that you’...