I actually think there is hell because we see hell every day.

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.

I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.