The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people