We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

So this is reality, this forgiveness, this reconciliation, is true for everybody. Paul insisted that when Jesus died on the cross, he was reconciling "all things, in heaven and on earth, to God." All things, everywhere. ...This reality then isn't something we make come true about ourselves by doing something. It is already true. Our choice is to live in this new reality or cling to a reality of our own making.

This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.

I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.