(RNS) Nadia Bolz-Weber is the kind of pastor who ends up doing funerals for an alcoholic stand-up comic and a transvestite. The founder of Denvers House for All Sinners and Saints, this tattooed, profanity-loving Lutheran pastor wants nothing more than to tell it like it is.

Her newest book, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People, expands on her trademark exploration of finding God in the unexpected.

When it comes down to it, said Bolz-Weber, the church is for losers. We connect to each other and to God through our shared brokenness, not through our personal victories and strengths and accomplishments. This is why its hilarious to me when people sort of write me off as hipster Christianity. You have definitely not been to my congregation. It is not hip.

Bolz-Weber talked recently with Religion News Service about the book. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.