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.

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.

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.

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.