Lie #1: God loves us, but doesn’t like us.
It is the middle of winter in northern Alberta, Canada. The temperature is well below zero, one of those days that is so cold your nose hairs feel like little sticks plugging up your nostrils and every...
View ArticleThe Shack Movie Premiere: The Author’s Experience.
Those of you who know me well, understand that a red-carpet movie premiere is considerably outside my normal flannel-shirt-and-jeans-Pacific-NW world. The red carpet, more of a symbolic name because...
View ArticleLie #25: God is Disappointed in Me.
Every child yearns to hear “I am proud of you,” not for performance but simply for being. Yet, most of us know what it’s like to feel the devouring abyss of disappointment, especially in the face and...
View ArticleMy Favorite Reviews of The Shack Movie!
Much has been said about The Shack movie. But here are a few of my favorite reviews! + Some of our favorite moments from the movie! – Chip & Joanna Gaines + A Review of The Shack movie – Richard K....
View ArticleLie #5: God is a Christian.
I wrote The Shack at the request of my wife, Kim. She’d asked, “Would you someday please write something as a gift for our kids that puts in one place how you think? Because, you know, you think...
View ArticleLie #3: God is in Control.
I was sitting in a hotel lobby in Orlando, Florida, having a conversation with my friend K, from Germany. Her world-class young athlete friend was recently paralyzed as a result of an on-camera stunt...
View ArticleBroken Together.
The weekend that The Shack movie released, I was honored to be part of a growing conversation hosted by New Canaan Society at their annual men’s conference in Washington DC. The theme of the weekend...
View ArticleBuried Feelings and Broken Hearts.
The way the week began, none of us would have predicted how it ended. The events of the days preceding our auspicious entry into Jerusalem were like a storm gathering together massive apocalyptic...
View ArticleThe Heart of Man.
True human sexuality has essentially never been a conversation about gender and role polarity, nor even about physical and relational interactions. It is a doorway into a mystery, the depths of what it...
View ArticleI Want to Be More Like Oprah.
Do you remember the story in the life of Jesus about a young Jewish ruler, wealthy, determined and obviously driven to pursue matters of personal spirituality? He humbled himself enough to ask a...
View ArticleA Time to….Catch Up!
No, you haven’t been scrubbed from the blog. You have not been un-friended. There is nothing wrong on your end. I simply have been silent for a few months. Truly, I don’t even know how to un-friend...
View ArticleHow we treat the children in our lives is a measure of our humanity.
I once saw a poster that showed a series of photos starting with a large Collie dog in between two small black pups. In the last photo the (miniature) Collie was dwarfed by two huge black Retrievers....
View ArticleThe Killing House
And so we gaze upon the lynchpin, the fulcrum and the crux of the cosmos, that we have killed Ourself in self-destructive rage, trying to blot out the memory or Our self-consuming shame, to kill Our...
View ArticleMy Mum Passed on New Year’s Eve Day Last.
My mum passed on New Year’s Eve day last, and now I stand on the cusp of the first Mother’s Day since. I am certain she now better understands me and that is a comfort. But we, or perhaps it is I, who...
View ArticleLet’s all PANIC!
“Let’s all PANIC!” Those of you who hang around my rarely active FB page and other social media platforms, have become accustomed to me not posting much, and not unless I think it is something that...
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