I know not everyone can appreciate the journey we are on with this little book called The Shack. I can appreciate the concerns people have that we might sell out in the name of success or be changed by it in some horrible way. We honestly didn’t expect that everyone would understand and we are [...]

Three years ago when I was working on rewrites of The Shack with Paul and Brad, I wasn’t even sure we’d be able to find a publisher for that book, much less an audience for it. And, as many of you know, we couldn’t find a publisher who would take the risk. This has been [...]

Greetings from the spring explosion that is New England. Every time I travel here, I wonder why I don’t live here. I absolutely love all the seasons here, except the humid, heavy, hot days of summer, but they usually don’t last long. Sara tells me it’s because we have children and grandchildren in California. But [...]

I have recently met a woman who cares for orphans in the Sudan. I published her letter to me a few weeks ago that touched many of you. She is in the States at the moment and I got an email from her today. I can’t imagine a better follow-up than what I posted about [...]

I get this question a lot, so I thought I’d post the exchange here, so i won’t have to rewrite it so many times: First of all, thank you for the encouragement you have been to us in the last year. We left the institutional church a little over a year ago and honestly do [...]

Many of you know how I tire of most ‘Christian’ approaches to dealing with culture issues in our world. Despite their rhetoric, their anger and manipulative strategies always come off as hating both the sinner and their sin. And instead of demonstrating the compassion of Jesus for the most marginalized and brokem in our culture, [...]

I am completely overwhelmed here with more emails, phone calls and business items than I can possibly manage at the moment. Pray for me, please. There are way too many opportunities and needs coming at me at the moment, and I just cannot keep up. There are some opportunities ahead that will decisively affect my [...]

I am reading through the minor prophets these days and found a mind-jarring passage in Zechariah 7. This is God talking, and I’m taking these quotes from THE MESSAGE: When you held days of fasting every fifth and seventh month all these seventy years, were you doing it for me? And when you held feasts, [...]

I couldn’t help but share a few loose ends hanging around my desk this morning: My listening audience is expanding. I got this from the mother of a fourteen-month old: Our son loves listening to you read the Jake book. He just sticks his thumb in his mouth and stares out the car window. Too [...]