Young
Young
long-ago long toilets
It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?
religious book thinking
I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature that brings the conversation of God into a modern context. I love the Bible, but in the West we've analyzed it until it fits into a structure of control. We need more new stories. We need different ways of looking at things, and I think it's coming.
real thinking events
I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it's just not real. That's what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happen, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.
community heal
You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.
tired thinking names
I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.
pain loss suffering
Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.
hurt pain son
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’
beautiful beautiful-mess mess
you are a beautiful mess, you are the melody…
risk important world
There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.
strong thinking use
Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
agendas shack same-love
You are free to love without an agenda
reality verbs alive
I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only a mass of nouns, it is dead. Unless 'I am', there are no verbs, and verbs are what makes the universe alive
people situation raised
I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
believe inspiration deep-affection
I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.