I’ve just finished reading The Shack.
Firstly, it’s an amazing book. Why do I say that? Well I supose that it made me cry about 4 times, not in itself amazing, but it did raise some interesting questions and I think it touched quite deep into things that I feel at an emotional level.
For those that have not read the book I won’t spoil it, except to say that it deals with probabbly a no. 1 issue for Christians, namley the question of suffering and why God doesn’t just put a stop to it all.
It also takes up a number of other interesting questions. I think that I will need to read it again, perhaps a few times and there are things in there that need to come out.

It’s not really a Christian book, and I’d be intersted to see how non-Christians would find it. One thing that I struggle with is that sometimes I’m embarassed about Church and the way that people labelling themselves as “Christian” think and act. It’s not their fault sometimes, but the Church just really, really doesnt help.
I think that my current fave quote from Rob Bell sums it up. “A lot of people confuse relegion with God… and walk away from both”
This book gets towards some of the really deep, relationship questions and the nature of love and that’s perhaps why there was a face based fluid adjustment.