Chad Holtz, formerly a Methodist pastor in North Carolina, recently lost his job after supporting a recent book by evangelical pastor Rob Bell, Love Wins, which questions contemporary Christians' beliefs about hell.
A married Navy veteran with five children, Holtz spent years trying to reconcile his belief that Jesus Christ's death on the cross redeemed the entire world with the idea that millions of people — including millions who had never even heard of Jesus — were suffering forever in hell.
"We do these somersaults to justify the monster god we believe in," he said. "But confronting my own sinfulness, that's when things started to topple for me. Am I really going to be saved just because I believe something, when all these good people in the world aren't?"
In-depth story here.
(Thanks to Mike for posting this to facebook, where I saw it.)
