I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.

Nothing in life is ritual.

You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.