Pastor Mark Driscoll isn’t the only person to take issue with The Shack. Author Paul Young said his mama had a hard time with the book, too. The difference between Driscoll and Bernice Young, however, is that at least she tried to read it. Driscoll didn’t bother to read it before he took to the pulpit...

Jim Henderson has this notion that Christians are being marginalized in America. People like our Jesus. Us? Not so much. There may be good reason for that, I suggested as Jim and I sat on a piano bench at Seattle’s Bethany Community Church discussing these matters during the Off the Map ’09 conference. Agreed,...