A Gentle Response to the Shack Attack

One of the dangers of Christian blogging is dealing with the spiritual hall monitors who seem to live only to smack your heretical knuckles with their ruler of truth. So I risk their wrath (carefully chosen word) with today’s post. The movie The Shack has reunited a wave of debate, hand-wringing, defensiveness and condemnation in Evangelical circles. The book and the subsequent movie has been called dangerous, subversive and heretical by many critics. I didn’t know any of this when a friend told me that he really enjoyed the book and I should read it many years ago. Since I have a book addiction I soon was in possession. I finished The Shack and I thought it was a decent and often good read. I was challenged and touched by parts of the story.  And, to be honest, I was unsettled by some of it. After finishing the book I did some research to find out what others were saying about the book. Some of the critiques