Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.

Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context, the reader's bias and current realities. The more you study the Bible, the more questions it raises. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says.