When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do. I used to say that I believed it was important to tell people about Jesus, but I never did. A friend kindly explained that if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say. We live for what we believe.

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.