Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”