"I wanted to start a church that I would want to go to; I didn't find any churches that I felt I could be myself at," she told Westword in an interview last year. "I have sleeve tattoos, I swear like a truck driver — the sort of piety around being a person of faith never really fit my personality. So I started a church that felt like [a place where] me and my friends didn't have to 'culturally commute' to go to, if that makes sense."
Now, Bolz-Weber has put the whole unconventional process of how that happened and why into words for her book, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint ($22, Jericho Books), a tome billed as a "spiritual memoir" that reads much like her own hard-core description of herself.
The eccentric Denver pastor will discuss and sign copies of Pastrix tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th Street. Find more information at tatteredcover.com or call 303-436-1070.
Tue., Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m., 2013