Tim Challies has been writing about bestselling books from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, and today it’s one that sold 20 million. Twenty, um, shall we say, million. It’s William P. Young’s The Shack. You probably know as much as you want to know about that book, but you may not know that Forest Whitaker is adapting it for film.

I’m disappointed to learn Young has left the church, saying “[The institutional church] doesn’t work for those of us who are hurt and those of us who are damaged.” This is the fruit of evil sown early in his life. I hate it. I know different churches have different weaknesses, but I hope to learn that the majority of them are healing places for everyone wounded, broken, and confused. But perhaps that is a humanistic hope. I mean, how many wounded and broken people can you have in one congregation before they start wounding each other? Our hope is the Lord who heals, not his people per se.