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Nadia Bolz-Weber (@thecorners)

Visiting St Mary’s church in Whitby, England (mentioned in Bram Stoker’s Dracula) - we saw what is arguably the greatest notice on a church bulletin board ever.

September 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM

Jean Summers

@jeansummers.bsky.social

Lauren writes so beautifully about her experience at the Atlanta Red State Revival….

a sermon on having faith in the time of tyrants

May 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM

Allen Peoples

@apeoples446.bsky.social

We need wisdom like Nadia's. I wish everyone would listen to this sermon. substack.com/@thecorners/...

Unclean lips

February 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM

Janis V.

@grannyjanis.bsky.social

33 Years For 33 years I haven’t picked up a drink or a drug. For 33 years I haven’t woken up in a stranger’s bed. Or in a pool of own sick mixed with vodka. For 33 years other alcoholics have guid...

substack.com/profile/5129...

December 26, 2024 at 1:53 PM

elbowow.bsky.social

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Lisa Bauer on Substack

https://open.substack.com/pub/thecorners/p/i-got-nothing-for-you-but-this-shitty?r=ujed5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#liminal #thecorners #minecraft #dreamcore #liminalspace #surreal #snowland

November 20, 2024 at 1:09 PM

Untrustedlife

@untrustedlife.bsky.social

A lamp post stands at what seems like the edge of the world. Casting a faint orange glow from both of its swaying lanterns. Around it, snow or ash falls slowly and ceaselessly. Beyond it stands several tall bizarre structures. Skyscrapers? Maybe? Or something else entirely. Its quiet , and cold but also serene. No one will ever see it again, except you.

October 18, 2024 at 4:38 PM

Untrustedlife

@untrustedlife.bsky.social

Gonna be posting loads of these for the next while!
#liminal #backrooms #thebackrooms #thecorners #minecraft #dreamcore #liminalspace

A room with a window at the back, looking into another identical room. The same door you entered through is visible, but closed and perfectly framed in the window. A lamp hangs quietly above, giving a serene but eerie feeling.

October 18, 2024 at 2:55 PM

Pattie Vargas 🫘💙🫶🏼🐶

@pattiev123.bsky.social

How beautiful is this ...

"May the hope of who you are becoming
win the death match
against the regret of who you once were."

substack.com/@thecorners/no...

A Blessing for R on Their Third Try at Rehab

A Blessing for R on their third try at rehab

May 10, 2026 at 12:31 PM

Sandy Roggero (Sandra Roggero)

@sandync28704.bsky.social

From the Episcopal Street Action Prayer Book: PRAYER BEFORE ATTENDING A DEMONSTRATION In the Name of the God of Peace, +the Nonviolent Christ, and the Liberating Spirit, Amen. God of Peace, as I ...

A prison sermon on the healing of Simon's mother in law

June 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM

❌👑Rimwe (never giving up)🔵

@rimwellc.bsky.social

"You may have heard the saying that hurt people hurt people. But what is also true is that healed people heal people. Not as an act of obligation, or law or social expectation but as an act of freedom."
~ Nadia Bolz-Weber
#quote #SundaySermon
substack.com/@thecorners

God's Etch-a-Sketch

July 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM

Linda Hillemann📎

@lhillemn.bsky.social

I really love Jon Pavlovich. I’ve read a couple of his books and several articles. It gave me a moment of peace to read this post so thank you for sharing it.

Someone else you might like is Nadia Bolz-Weber (@thecorners) who is not your typical Lutheran pastor. I’m not your typical Lutheran — so

January 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM

aspiring-geek83

@aspiring-geek83.bsky.social

Today's #fleamarket find. It's a little beat up, the ink bottles don't match and one of them is damaged, but it is still pretty. Seller is closing their antique store and says he has a matching slope in storage he'll bring next month.
#fountainpen #handwriting

Photo of a vintage laquered paper maché ink stand. It is decorated with gold paint and mother of pearl inlay and features two glass inkwells and a small lidded section for stamps

Corner detail of the ink stand, showing the rainbow colours of the mother of pearl inlay

Detail shot of the lid of the stand section. Thecorners show light damage. The handle looks and feels like amber.

June 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM

Don Wallick

@dwallick.bsky.social

The opposite of gratitude isn’t ingratitude, it’s entitlement. (!)

substack.com/@thecorners/...

33 Years For 33 years I haven’t picked up a drink or a drug. For 33 years I haven’t woken up in a stranger’s bed. Or in a pool of own sick mixed with vodka. For 33 years other alcoholics have guid...

December 26, 2024 at 8:13 PM

Untrustedlife

@untrustedlife.bsky.social

Lost between moments.

#liminal #thecorners #minecraft #dreamcore #liminalspace #surreal #uncanny #isolation

Before you is a grayscale hallway, split into three parts. The middle section floats silently between the others, suspended in midair. It’s still, unmoving, yet somehow, it hovers. You think you see the end of the hallway, but it’s just an illusion—it is infinite. It has no end. And you must keep walking. The farther you gaze, the less real it seems. A silent, endless monochrome. A window beside you looks out into a gray void. There’s a strange comfort in the quiet… but also an underlying fear of something you can’t quite understand.

October 18, 2024 at 4:57 PM

IC-Greg

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Nadia Bolz-Weber (@thecorners)

My entire childhood: Grew up in conservative Christian purity culture. Mid 80s: Discovered Gloria Steinem’s essay “If men could menstruate” and it unfurled a whole part of my brain I didn’t even kno...

Keeping it Together with Nadia Bolz-Weber and Father James Martin

September 4, 2026 at 10:01 AM

Nancy Janisch (she/her)

@nancyajanisch.bsky.social

substack.com/@thecorners/...
This is good and wise and helpful

A recording from James Martin, SJ and Nadia Bolz-Weber's live video

August 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM

Parsons

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Nadia Bolz-Weber (@thecorners)

Today the church celebrates Epiphany - the story of how an insecure, power-hungry asshole is outsmarted by some foreign astrologers and a couple impoverished refugees.