[Magdalen] A thought from Nadia

[Jon Egger]

IIRC, the blog is called The Sarcastic Lutheran

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, she is! I've seen her twice in Richmond and read her books. She also
> has a blog, the name of which escapes me at the moment, and her sermons are
> posted there.
> I've almost gotten used to her tattoos...
>
> > On Apr 10, 2017, at 10:48 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I got a chance to see/hear her in person a couple of years ago. She's
> > amazing.
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Yeah, I love her, too!
> >>
> >>>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 12:05 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> >>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> From Nadia Bolz Weber
> >>>
> >>> Here’s what I have to say about Holy Week (Palm Sunday, Maundy
> Thursday,
> >>> Good Friday and the Easter Vigil):
> >>>
> >>> Two thousand years ago in the middle-east, there had to have been
> crowds
> >>> who shouted praise and friends who betrayed and followers who denied
> and
> >>> women who wept and soldiers who mocked and thieves who believed. It
> would
> >>> have happened like this even if the Jesus event were happening now
> >> instead
> >>> of then. Even if we knew everything in advance – were we the ones on
> the
> >>> street we too would shout Hosanna and a few days later shout crucify
> him.
> >>> And that’s the good news when it comes down to it. Because these people
> >> of
> >>> the Holy Week story are we people. And we people are the likes of which
> >> God
> >>> came to save. God did not become human and dwell among us as Jesus to
> >> save
> >>> only an improved, doesn’t make the wrong choices kind of people. There
> is
> >>> no improved version of humanity that could have done any differently.
> So
> >> go
> >>> ahead. Don’t wait until you think your motivations are correct. Don’t
> >> wait
> >>> till you are sure you believe every single line of the Nicene creed (no
> >> one
> >>> does all the time!). Don’t worry about coming to church this week for
> the
> >>> right reasons. Just wave branches. Shout praise for the wrong reason.
> >> Eat a
> >>> meal. Have your feet washed. Grab at coins. Shout Crucify him. Walk
> away
> >>> when the cock crows. Because we, as we are and not as some improved
> >> version
> >>> of ourselves…we are who God came to save. And nothing can stop what’s
> >> going
> >>> to happen.
> >>>
> >>> -- Nadia Bolz Weber
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Christopher Hart
> >
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>



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