Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

by Nadia Bolz-Weber

every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.”

But when I’ve experienced loss and felt so much pain that it feels like nothing else ever existed, the last thing I need is a well-meaning but vapid person saying that when God closes a door he opens a window. It makes me want to ask where exactly that window is so I can push him the fuck out of it.

We want to go to God for answers, but sometimes what we get is God’s presence.

Repentance in Greek means something much closer to “thinking differently afterward” than it does “changing your cheating ways.”