Reading an interview with Young, author of the self-published best-seller “The Shack,” which I own, but have not read.

“I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.”

A God of deep affection. Somehow that speaks to me more than a God of love, which is a word we have heard over-used since our childhoods, and which has therefore has lost some of its edginess and meaning.