Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.'

Even though you can’t finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives – that’s all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

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.

I have moments that aren’t too bad, but there’s always something I’m struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.

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.

Jesus is not the ’founder of Christianity.

And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it’s not about pleasing God, it’s about learning how to trust God. That’s a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it’s going to take time.

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.