I love “The Shack.” I think it’s poorly written, but I do love like it. I don’t think it’s heresy… that’s for sure…

But this news from the LA Times makes me very sad…

“The Shack,” William Paul Young’s novel about a man rediscovering lost faith after the murder of his 5-year-old daughter, started out as a manuscript no one would touch. Finally, pastors Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings discovered the book and created a start-up, Windblown Media, to publish it. The novel sold a million copies for them in the first year, eventually ending up at No. 1 on the New York Times’ trade paperback bestseller list.

For nearly eight months, the trio have been mired in a series of lawsuits, accusations flying over improper accounting practices, millions of dollars in missing royalties, contract breaches and copyright disputes.

Read the story here.

This is sad.

I hate lawsuits between friends.

I hate that it mostly comes down to money.

Hope this gets resolved soon. Cuz this is sadder than the actual book–and not to mention, the news article is better written than the actual book… Uh… I didn’t write that…. 🙂