Caught between how ancient people understood divinity, which was mostly as supreme beings with large egos and hankerings for sacrificed animals, and Christ's message of God's reckless and radical love, Christianity has always sought to thread the needle between God's justice and God's love. Much of contemporary Christianity does this by believing that a heartfelt thumbs up to Jesus and his sacrifice satiates God's need for justice and opens a private door to the fullness of His love - salvation. While this belief is understood as granting an express pass to paradise, it also grants a lot of wiggle room on the necessity of doing the things Jesus actually taught... like all the loving your enemies, feeding the hungry, and the not judging stuff.

What if the choice was not between God's love and God's justice because God's love was God's justice? And what if this is the Good News of Jesus? That GOD IS LOVE, and it is only love that makes one a follower of His and a child of God.

True-ish Words about the Book and Its Author!

"This book changes everything." - someone might say after reading it and having several glasses of wine

"Your professor is from the Devil." - a former student's grandmother

"I am an agnostic, but if I were going to believe anything about God, it might be because of this book. My uncle wanted me to say that 'this book changes everything, ' but that was a little over the top, and he was out of wine." - author's niece