The controversy swirling around Rob Bell’s book Love Wins is fresh evidence on how cantankerous the American church is. Because of the endorsement I gave to the book, people keep trying to draw me into [the] fracas. And [a] fracas it certainly is. How the so-called Christian community can generate so much hate is appalling. Haven’t we learned anything about civil discourse? Will we ever? And it is so debilitating—we have this glorious gospel to proclaim and give away and we gang up against one another and throw dogma-rocks.
