Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.
I think the church needs โ I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.
We live in the midst of a creation that is groaning.
God is bigger than the Christian faith.
You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.