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Once a seminary student asked to shadow me for two days to see what my life as a pastor was like. At the end, he said, Oh my gosh, you're basically a person for a living.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Once a seminary student asked to shadow me for two days to see what my life as a pastor was like. At the end, he said, Oh my gosh, you're basically a person for a living.

Tags: pastoral ministry, pastoring, vocation

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About Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia Bolz-Weber (born April 22, 1969) is an American author, Lutheran minister and public theologian. She served as the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado, until July 8, 2018.
Bolz-Weber is known for her unusual approach to reaching others through her church. She has produced work in the church that scholar and writer Diana Butler Bass considers part of "a new Reformation".