There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full of people God loves, whom Jesus died for. Hell is full of forgiven people God loves, whom Jesus died for. The difference is how we choose to live, which story we choose to live in, which version of reality we trust.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.