Favorite Patheos blogger and Lutheran Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber recently spoke to 34,000 teenagers at the annual youth gathering of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) in New Orleans. Her selection as a conference speaker had been widely contested (Nadia has a tendency to drop the F bomb and is heavily tatooed), but ultimately she was invited to take the stage and offer a 20-minute message.
I invite you to take a minute and listen to what she said to these Christian teens, and see what you think. Personally, I think God knew exactly who to send …