All the wrong people are alright with God. This is a crucial truth, though few in our religious God-Clubs will receive it—it is a holy surprise we do not wholly approve of. God’s inviting people to the party that religious folk don’t include on their guest lists, and this makes us nervous. Why? Because, as George MacDonald says in his sermon on justice, we “yield the idea of the Ancient of Days, ‘the glad creator,’ and put in its stead a miserable, puritanical martinet of a God.”