Check out Lambda Literary's interview with C. Dale Young, "We Are Complex Things," as he talks about his new book, Torn (Four Way Books, 2011).
"I am endlessly fascinated by the fact the human animal is capable of incredible tenderness and care while in the next moment it is capable of unthinkable brutality. I see this over and over. And I guess I imagine God must also be that way to have created us in His image, a fact theologians typically want to avoid. We are complex things. God is complex. Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Nothing."
