Amid the apocalyptic to-do about Rob Bell possibly considering an idea that other Christians have considered for centuries, Rachel Held Evans had a fun idea: an interview with another Rob Bell, a web ...

Bell, pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., offers an innovative and intriguing, if uneven, first book. This introduction to the Christian faith is definitely outside the usual ...

In 2006, I was a freshman at Lee University, an evangelical Christian school in Cleveland (TN). At the time, I was your typical conservative, evangelical Christian. The brand of Christianity I ...

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) Hipster preacher Rob Bell is mashing up quantum physics, Jewish Kabbalah and Catholic mysticism to explain humanity’s future evolution. In his 30-city “Everything Is Spiritual” tour ...

Rob Bell was once the evangelical It Boy, the hipster pastor with the thick-rimmed glasses and the skinny jeans whose best-selling theology was captured in books with names such as “Velvet Elvis” and ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Rob Bell and his wife, Kristen, talked about marriage during a Valentine's weekend episode of Oprah Winfrey's "Super Soul Sunday" television show. The former Mars Hill Bible Church ...

Rob Bell is a terrible songwriter. A few years ago, the bestselling author and former mega-church pastor turned motivational speaker wrote and recorded several songs, playing every instrument except ...

Did I really need to learn How To Be Here, urgently, right now? The book’s publisher had sent me not one advance reading copy, but three. A sign from the universe? I decided to read the book to find ...

A Job Interview Gone-So-Wrong-It's-Right We'll Get Back to You is a sharp comedy and an unexpectedly profound theatrical experience, centering on Viva, a job applicant whose interview is anything but ...

Those who are ready to send Rob Bell to the hell he purportedly denies have unwittingly confirmed the suspicion of skeptics who want nothing to do with a religion whose practitioners seem to relish ...