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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.
William P. Young
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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?
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My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.
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I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.
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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.
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But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.
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It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
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Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.
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It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
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I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
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Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.
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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.
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Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.
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When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.
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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
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The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and relentless invitation to deepening relationship but any lack of belief or participation on our part has no power to negate the accomplished truth of that declaration.
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Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.
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You need boundaries... Even in our material creations, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains and the plains, where the canyon meets the river.
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The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.
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