Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God's presence-ripped.One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God.A beautiful idea.But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.