"We Could Use Some Resurrection" with Nadia Bolz-Weber
The Evolving Faith Podcast
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The Lord of Compassion
As a gay man, daddy god sounds just a little different to my ears. Nadia so deftly gives us both a history lesson about how that title the lord, was used back in jesus time. And she gives us a theological one about how jesus lordship is distinct and even radical in light of how lordship was then typically understood. The word she chooses as her centre, which i love, is compassion, which comes from the latin for sufferr with. She defines and describes jesus as the lord of compassion. And that moves me, even as i'm talking about it right now,. because i want a god who reminds us that we're not
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