2025-01-27
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I'm your host, Chris Duffy.
Today on the show, we're talking about faith and religion with Nadia Bolzweber.
She is a New York Times best selling author of the books Shameless Accidental Saints and Pastoricks.
She's also the host of the Confessional podcast and the very popular newsletter the Cornerstone.
But more than any of the accolades or the accomplishments, Nadia is a person who has been remarkably open and vulnerable about the ways that she has struggled and failed and found ways to continue in her life.
Now, whatever your opinion on religion is, I think that you're going to find that Nadia has a refreshingly different and much needed perspective on what it means to have faith in the world today.
And just as an example of how Nadia is really different from what you might expect you'd be hearing from a pastor, here's a quote that's featured prominently on her website and which Nadia says is as common a prayer as she has ever prayed in her life.
And that prayer is, God, please help me to not be an asshole.
I love that.
And here's a clip of Nadia talking about why that prayer in particular resonates with her.
I guess I think spiritual leaders, a lot of times even just that term feels weird to apply to myself, but a lot of times it feels like they're people who have such an abundance of some kind of virtue that they have extra that they can share with people who don't have that virtue.
You know, whether it's like forgiveness or patience or gratitude.
Right.
And that's never what I have to offer, ever.
I think the only thing I have to offer is the fact that I still struggle with like hating most people.
I'm not like naturally the most grateful person.
I can hold resentments longer than I should.