Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.

I don't see the Father pouring out his wrath on the Son. I see the human race pouring out their wrath on the Son. So I see the only hope for the entire cosmos is what the Son chooses to accept, crawling upon the instrument of our greatest wrath. He met us at the deepest, darkest place.