Nadia Bolz Weber and Science Mike

[@senyart890]

I love the courage they show in their testimonies.

[@williamoarlock8634]

'Courage' to blather on about oneself?

[@cplunajr745]

I love you Nadia. Thank you for sharing with us your journey. May God continue to use you reach to a lot of people hurting and losing hope.

[@TheMuggle68]

This is the best thing I've seen in a long time. Compare the engagement with humanity and truth here to the platitudes you'll find in your average evangelical pastor's sermon...this is where the spirit is moving.

[@jaystee1427]

😢❤

[@greenbank4800]

wow, the honesty of these two wonderful people is empowering and calls all of us with walls to open the drawbridges, with care and selectively trustful initially

[@carolcarter8100]

This is a helpful conversation.

[@wendymcmahon4145]

Thank you both for being so honest and vulnerable. Thank you Nadia and Mike for modelling selfless and supportive listening skills. You two have helped others understand teenage trauma and affirmed survivors so much. Teenage life sucks so much! It's a battle for self esteem survival.

[@harryschultz6951]

So beautiful - thank you both for sharing this and showing us what vulnerability looks like 🙏🏼❤️

[@mannuraven2157]

I love your honesty- your truth- thank you both

[@ericherman5413]

We feel your grief as deeply through this video as you did in the moment. Thank you for sharing this moment with those who could not attend the event. God bless you both.

[@DrummerGrrrl]

I was bullied from grades 5-12. I remember those stupid yearbooks and how everyone wanted signatures and to sign everyone else's books. Through all of 11th and 12th grades there was this one girl, Sheila Neal who was so horrible and rotten to me. She came up to me when we were seniors and asked to sign my yearbook. I was always timid and let bullies walk all over me but I remember looking right at her and saying, "You don't even like me. You've NEVER liked me. Why the hell would I want your signature in my yearbook?!" The look on her face! She was completely stunned and I just walked away. Later, she was crying in class and all the popular people asked why she was crying. I just looked at her and didn't feel anything.

[@lawrenceshadai4966]

Facts

[@AbbeyBrookeD]

I am weeping. So much love in my heart for these two. Sweet bb angels.

[@vrrusa]

Thank you, Nadia, for the advocation of black arm bands. I totally agree. We spent 7.5 months in a TC/ICU unit in UCSF while my fully cognizant father struggled to live. The traumatic cost of the hospital experience (not necessarily of my fathers death) was tremendous but I would do it again in a heartbeat. I wanted so badly to have some way to tell people. "I am broken right now, be gentle with me. I cannot be responsible for my responses and might cry or just stare at you uncomprehendingly. Nothing to see here folks; just move on." I bulked when you said "I doubt if self-care is your problem". Sober in AA 36 years; needed Al-Anon 60 years. In Al-Anon 3 years. So that hit me wrong BUT you resonate so strongly with me when you speak I thought, "OK... listen to her." And I got it. I needed to learn how to stop the endless self-recrimination for not being/doing/knowing enough so I could see the illusory manifestation of "my story". I needed to use HALT (hungry, angry, lonely, tired) and stop acting as if my perfectly loving God was MIA in my pain. For that I needed to put down the 2x4 & get "off the cross". I was taught in AA to look for my part but that became a way to bludgeon myself for my wrongs. In other words, I flipped to the other side of the character defect of pride. Best of the best to worst of the worst. Neither is correct. APPROPRIATE self-care was the beginning of that. The balance between meeting my daily needs mentally, emotionally, physically & spiritually (so I am competent & effective for ministering to others) and subjugating my daily needs so others always come first and I can feed my ego with my saintliness and martyrdom is my daily struggle. When do I step in & when to I step back? So, I search for guides (yes, people who are smarter than I am LOL!) to give me the spiritual heart transplant, I so desperately need. Being human is really fucked up sometimes... but what else have we got?

[@silentdecay]

Armour.... *Chills* 100% *Feels* & dig it sincerestly

[@brianbrownell689]

What I really like about the Lutheran Church is the centrality of scripture.

[@brandonsmith7892]

I’m bawling. This is fucking beautiful.

[@truthmatters3449]

i'm half way through and ---- wow! wow! wow! thank you! thank you! thank you!!!!!

[@kennethfurr7397]

Wow. What else can I say? Wow.

[@christusvincit6696]

I don't believe in adapting the Church to the culture. I believe we need to adapt to the ancient teachings of the Church. But their stories are heartbreaking. And I can completely relate with being the sad bullied child.

[@debrawehrly9551]

She would make a great motivational speaker!

[@robbiedozier2840]

I really really really hope they bring her on the Liturgists

[@lunacouer]

The dream team!!

[@esjaymusings]

I'm 3 mins in and I'm about to start crying.

[@DrummerGrrrl]

Science Mike! Bass guitar rocks!! I'm a drummer/percussionist/singer AND aspiring bass guitar player. Also, I'm an Abstract painter. And I'm not bullied, anymore. Nor do I bully anyone else.

[@RubyDoobydoobs]

Who was Rachel I’m sorry for you loss and I would like to know more about her and her story.

[@janalynnalmeida7192]

Rachel Held Evans

[@Sincyn241]

@@janalynnalmeida7192 Thank you. I was just looking at a few of her books my library. It’s so sad that she passed away.

[@racheladkins6060]

I wish you had a Healthcare system like here in England, at least it’s free at the point of need.

[@carolinafine8050]

Yeah…. And good luck getting in to be seen in a timely manner

[@DrummerGrrrl]

High school boys used to bark at me when I walked down the halls in school. I regularly got called "dyke". LOL. I completely claim that title now. Out and proud lesbian and beloved friend and little sister to Jesus.

[@delaney157]

💋🕯😇

[@citizenbobx]

Should've talked to Spicer.

[@beckytruman5889]

Hot flash.

[@robertpeterson5310]

I had mice in my garge about 20 years ago and all of my junior High and High School were covered in mouse pee and mouse crap. I had to throw them away. I am so happy they are gone.

[@ellenreeve2547]

Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.” (2 Corinthians 4:4, NLT)

[@beldengi]

Has this got something to do with a marriage that has ended? In the mean time her ex husband has had a serious accident and needs a lot of support while she is trying to sustain a travelling speaking ministry. Hers will be a short lived Regency because she is ultimately crude and shallow.

[@barbarachristopher7646]

The language?? Disgusting!

[@barfrockskin535]

Nadia does nothing but promote paganism. What a sick woman.