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| Liberal Lutheran pastor melts purity rings into vagina sculpture, presents it to Gloria Steinem |
| 2019-02-20 |
| [The Christian Post] Liberal Lutheran Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber unveiled a sculpture of a vulva made entirely of old purity rings to protest evangelical purity culture and presented it to pro-abortion second-wave feminist Gloria Steinem. Bolz-Weber, the founding pastor of Denver’s House for All Sinners and Saints, showed off the sculpture ‐ which was made by melting down the old jewelry ‐ during the 2019 Makers Conference last week. "Every single thing and person that seemed so powerful and inescapable, I name them and then I just go ’footnote,’" Bolz-Weber told conference attendees. "I mean, seriously, Pontious Pilate? He’s a footnote. Your bully from middle school? Footnote. Your depression? Footnote. Your s----y boss? Footnote. All of those things are very real, and the harm that they have on us and the world is also real." "But to me, the whole point of having faith is it allows us to believe in a bigger story than the one we tell ourselves. Those purity rings are a footnote," she declared, unveiling the sculpture. "The [rings] we couldn’t melt down spell out the word ’freedom’ and were woven into this heart," Bolz-Weber said, gesturing toward the sculpture. "Isn’t it amazing?" she said while presenting the sculpture to Steinem amid audience applause. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Wikipedia on this alcoholic drug abusing comic pastor and NY Times award winning writer Bolz-Weber grew up in Colorado Springs with a fundamentalist Christian family.[5] In 1986, at age 17, Bolz-Weber started getting tattoos, and the ones on her arms mark the liturgical year and the story of the Gospel. Bolz-Weber briefly attended Pepperdine University before dropping out and moving to Denver.[6] She says that she became an alcoholic and drug abuser and often felt like one of "society's outsiders". By 1996, after 10 years, Bolz-Weber became sober and, as of 2016, has remained so for twenty years.[5] Prior to her ordination, she was a stand-up comedian and worked in the restaurant industry.[7] Bolz-Weber felt that she heard the call to service in 2004 when she was asked to eulogize a friend who had died by suicide.[8] In 2008, Bolz-Weber was ordained as a pastor.[7] She started her own church, the House for All Sinners and Saints, which is often shortened to just House.[8] One third of her church is part of the LGBT community, and she also has a "Minister of Fabulousness", Stuart, who is a drag queen.[6] Her church is also very welcoming to people with drug addiction, depression, and even those who are not believers of her faith.[9] Bolz-Weber spends nearly twenty hours each week writing her weekly ten-minute sermon.[7] In 2018 she called for women to send her their purity rings to be melted down into a vagina sculpture as part of healing the psychic damage of the purity movement of the 1990s.[10] Bolz-Weber speaks at religious conferences and is a guest speaker at other churches.[11][8] Bolz-Weber writes for Christian Century and Sojourners.[12] In addition her books include Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television, reviewed in Christian Century[13] and The Daily Sentinel (TX),[14] and Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint reviewed in Publishers Weekly,[12] Booklist,[15] and Sojourners Magazine.[16][17] In 2015 she released Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People.[18] |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-02-20 22:58 |
| #8 HFASS's website claims that "at this point we are a community of around 500+ people (with 100-200 showing up most Sundays)." Involvement of "pastrix" (now retired to pursue career as "public theologian") is described at bottom of page. Lots of worshipful coverage and preachifying on YouTube, all as amusing/discomfitting as you'd expect. |
| Posted by: Snomble Theatch5051 2019-02-20 22:54 |
| #7 nuff said. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-02-20 22:49 |
| #6 I'd be curious if the pastor has anyone in their flock and for how long. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-02-20 15:21 |
| #5 I was sure this was the Babylon Bee. But then I checked, and it is not. How long till the Babylon Bee has to stop publishing because they can't satirize this stuff anymore? |
| Posted by: Tom 2019-02-20 14:32 |
| #4 Probably not real gold. Very few actually are. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-02-20 08:30 |
| #3 Oh, naughty! A Lutheran kahuna Cum feminist Charlie the Tuna Presented her idol A cast with the title "Rear View of a Brass Calvaluna." |
| Posted by: Butch Crique2800 2019-02-20 06:06 |
| #2 Was she the model too? Gloria is dying to know. |
| Posted by: Shoth Schwarzeneggar3463 2019-02-20 05:55 |
| #1 I do not grock. This will take some processing. |
| Posted by: Beau 2019-02-20 00:45 |