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We take you to The House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, a widely unconventional congregation led by Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber. She told correspondent Lucky Severson her language, teaching, and tattoos symbolize her acceptance of everyone, and they of her. Together their church is thriving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSo much of spirituality is about sanding ourselves down, smoothing ourselves out so that we\u2019re nice and shiny. But the fact is the jagged edges of our humanity are what actually connect us to God and to one another,\u201d says Nadia Bolz-Weber, the tattooed founding pastor of The House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver. 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