Gary Thomas on The Shack

Gary Thomas has an excellent review of the bestseller, The Shack by William P. Young. I speed-read it over coffee at Barnes and Noble, and didn't like it. "God" explains Himself to a middle-aged man by appearing as a Trinity of people at the man's shack in the woods. Thomas nails the problem of the premise on the head.

I like the God of my book, 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, who says, "I let the plane crash, now get over it!" The real God lifts us out of fretting over the temporal, and into the eternal.

H/t to William Dicks's Just Thinking blog.