Love Wins

Hello, Rob Bell - The Interview

Skye Jethani | Posted 05.01.2012

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"Let the Spirit do what the Spirit will. And while you're at it, relinquish the need to label everything "Christian" or "not Christian." Be a Christian. People can figure the rest out. It's a noun, after all.

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Love Loses: Barnes and Noble's Big Fat Bell Book Fail

John Shore | Posted 08.16.2011

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If you happened to have read John Wins: When Rob Bell's Editor Calls, you know I'm thinking about doing a book with an actual, real book publisher. I'...

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Karmic Relief For A Post-Hell World

Philip Goldberg | Posted 07.17.2011

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Anecdotal evidence suggests that karma has become a ubiquitous shorthand for reap-what-you-sow justice. The term crops up increasingly in song lyrics, sitcoms, news and casual conversation.

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Book Review Roundup: Obama's Mom's Bio And A Book About Heaven And Hell

Posted 07.03.2011

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"The Summer Without Men" by Siri Hustvedt New York Times Hustvedt’s novels tend to be as somber as they are intellectually invigorating. Her g...

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Who WIll Go To Hell?

ABC News | SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES | Posted 06.22.2011

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Literal hell is a gruesome place, a worm-infested trash heap where children are sacrificed to the flames, according to the Bible, and for those who do...

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Hell-Questioning Reverend Didn't Envision Controversy

AP | By TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 06.06.2011

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Evangelical megachurch pastor Rob Bell said he did not anticipate the firestorm he would stir with his book that questions the tra...

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The Good News Is Better Than That: Reflections On Hell, Salvation And The Power Of Love

Rob Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

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If that message and that conviction cause controversy, I'll accept that. Because good news is what we need.

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Will 'Love Wins' Win? We're Early In The First Inning ...

Brian D. McLaren | Posted 05.25.2011

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I imagine Rob Bell feels a lot like I have on many occasions: it's not that the critics have understood what I'm trying to say and have explained why they disagree. They've misrepresented what I'm trying to say and have explained why the misrepresentation is audacious and ludicrous.

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Critics Heated Up By Bell's Hell

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Cathy Lynn Grossman USA Today (RNS) Talk about hellfire! One of the nation's rock-star-popular young pastors, Rob Bell, 40, has stuck a pitchfork ...

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The Heretical Rob Bell And Why Love Wins

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

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They called him a Universalist. A wolf in sheep's clothing. A false prophet. A radical. Dangerous. And more than a few have labeled Bell a heretic. But that's the good news.

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The Rob Bell Controversy: Does Anyone Go To Hell?

David Lose | Posted 05.26.2011

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Why can't a prominent Christian author question how to reconcile God's incredible love with the notion of condemning souls to eternal torment without being condemned as a heretic?

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Farewell Rob Bell (or, John Piper's Inferno)

Christopher LaTondresse | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Piper, an elder statesman of the neo-reform stream of American Christianity, triggered an online firestorm over the weekend. The controversy is over the content of Rob Bell's next book.

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