If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.
The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.
One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.
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.
My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.