Rob Bell is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and
spiritual teacher. His books include Love Wins, How to Be Here,
What We Talk About When We Talk About God, Velvet Elvis, The Zimzum
of Love, Sex God, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, and Drops Like
Stars. He hosts the weekly podcast The Robcast, which was named by
iTunes as one of the best of 2015. He was profiled in The New
Yorker and in TIME Magazine as one of 2011's hundred most
influential people. He and his wife, Kristen, have three children
and live in Los Angeles.
Rob Bell is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and
spiritual teacher. His books include Love Wins, How to Be Here,
What We Talk About When We Talk About God, Velvet Elvis, The Zimzum
of Love, Sex God, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, and Drops Like
Stars. He hosts the weekly podcast The Robcast, which was named by
iTunes as one of the best of 2015. He was profiled in The New
Yorker and in TIME Magazine as one of 2011's hundred most
influential people. He and his wife, Kristen, have three children
and live in Los Angeles.
Author of several rather controversial books on Christian spirituality, Bell (founding pastor, Mars Hill Bible Church, Grand Rapids, MI; Velvet Elvis) is nothing if not a hip pastor. His books generally reconcile Christian belief with modern life in novel ways, but in his broadest theological statement yet, Bell treads old territory: by a rather curious and selective reading of the Bible, he suggests that our ideas of hell are too broad and our notion of heaven too small-in short, he is a good old-fashioned American Universalist. VERDICT For many mainstream or conservative Christians, Bell's message will (as usual) go too far; for younger or more open-minded Christians, it may well have the intended effect-to bring readers and believers closer to God. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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