{"id":40301,"date":"2013-09-30T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T02:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nadia_bolz-weber-tattoos_on_the_arms_curse_words_on_the_lips_and_a_story_o\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T02:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T02:00:35","slug":"nadia_bolz-weber-tattoos_on_the_arms_curse_words_on_the_lips_and_a_story_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40301","title":{"rendered":"Nadia Bolz-Weber&#8211;Tattoos on the arms, curse words on the lips and a story of grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Any time you can take an insult and make it your own, it&#8217;s a win,&#8221; explains Bolz-Weber, who speaks in Winnipeg Friday, Oct. 4 and Saturday, Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>And she&#8217;s not the only one who believes in transforming words, and even lives. On her recent book tour promoting her new bestselling memoir, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner &#038; Saint, the recovering alcoholic and former stand-up comic has attracted crowds of up to 900 people wanting to hear her story, and maybe share some of theirs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think people are eager to have a whole life faith, to have the sacred story connected with their reality,&#8221; explain Bolz-Weber of the huge response to her book, which exposes her struggle with drugs and alcohol, her move to faith, and her efforts to stay there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/arts-and-life\/life\/faith\/sinner-and-a-saint-225618652.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Any time you can take an insult and make it your own, it&#8217;s a win,&#8221; explains Bolz-Weber, who speaks in Winnipeg Friday, Oct. 4 and Saturday, Oct. 5. And she&#8217;s not the only one who believes in transforming words, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40301\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50,42,207,363,435,154,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-canada","category-lutheran","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}