Join Rob Bell, Shane Hipps, and Peter Rollins for
POETS, PROPHETS, & PREACHERS,
a seminar for those serious about reclaiming the art of the sermon. Here's a sampling:
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Click on this link to listen to an April 15, 2008 podcast of Rob Bell speaking about his upcoming book with Don Golden titled Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile.
There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building.
Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty.
This is a book about those two numbers.
It's a book about faith and fear,
wealth and war,
poverty, power, safety, terror,
Bibles, bombs, and homeland insecurity,
It's about empty empires and the truth that everybody's a priest, it's about oppression, occupation, and what happens when Christians support, animate and participate in the very things Jesus came to set people free from.
It's about what it means to be a part of the church of Jesus in a world where some people fly planes into buildings while others pick up groceries in Hummers.
Zondervan author Rob Bell was featured in Time Magazine this past week. Click here to read the full article.
Rob Bell is author of Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality and Spirituality and Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith. Rob's recent Everything is Spiritual tour was released on DVD this past month.
Rob Bell's Zondervan book Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality and Spirituality was featured on CNN on Sunday, December 2nd. Click here to watch the CNN video.
CNN-TV is scheduled to broadcast a report about Rob Bell and his book Sex God, this Sunday at 7:40 AM. Thought you'd like to know in case you want to catch it.
[Notes while on Rob Bell's Calling All Peacemakers tour.]
Last night's event was at the Coal Exchange in Cardiff - a really grungy music venue in the Bay area. Previous appearances here included The Alarm, The Levellers, Van Morrison and Howard Marks, so Rob was in great company. The venue lent a really 'edgy' feel to the evening, and there was a lot more audience interaction than we have seen in many venues (Manchester apart ... but that is Manchester!).
We arrived into Cardiff around 2pm today, checked into the hotel and were able to spend a bit of time exploring the bay area - a redeveloped old dock and port, now a thriving commercial area with restaurants, pubs, the Welsh Assembly building, the stunning Opera House (with the stirring poem emblazoned on on the building in both Welsh and English "In These Stones/ Horizons/ Sing" - in welsh the word for sing here is Awen which means so much more than the English - it recalls Bardic tradition). We were able to relax and have some dinner looking out over the bay in some rare sunshine before heading off to the venue.
The building, The Coal Exchange, is over 100 years old and used to be, you guessed it, the Coal Exchange! That is, it is where the coal stocks from around the world were traded, and Rob performed on what was the trading room floor. Although all the redevelopment is great, I couldn't help but feel sad that this great music venue was going to be turned into expensive apartments for over-paid bankers!
Off to Shrewsbury today (my home town - I get to sleep in my bed!), where we are staying for the Wolverhampton gig.
Ian Matthews, Zondervan's UK Sales and Marketing Manager
