ROB BELL
Rob Bell is always evolving, always pushing the boundaries of his creative expression and spiritual understanding. It's what I admire most about his work and what's helped transform my own life. But I didn't always see it this way. Rob Bell is a former mega church pastor, the author of numerous books on spirituality, including Love Wins; Everything is Spiritual and Sex God. He hosts a podcast, The Robcast. He creates talks about big issues like the meaning of life and then takes in on tour to theaters all over the place. He hosts retreats in Ojai, California Eight years ago, almost to the day, I interviewed Rob for the first time. It what turned out to be three different Skype calls, over...
ROB BELL
Rob Bell is always evolving, always pushing the boundaries of his creative expression and spiritual understanding. It's what I admire most about his work and what's helped transform my own life. But I didn't always see it this way. Rob Bell is a former mega church pastor, the author of numerous books on spirituality, including Love Wins; Everything is Spiritual and Sex God. He hosts a podcast, The Robcast. He creates talks about big issues like the meaning of life and then takes in on tour to theaters all over the place. He hosts retreats in Ojai, California Eight years ago, almost to the day, I interviewed Rob for the first time. It what turned out to be three different Skype calls, over...
ROB BELL
Rob Bell is always evolving, always pushing the boundaries of his creative expression and spiritual understanding. It's what I admire most about his work and what's helped transform my own life. But I didn't always see it this way. Rob Bell is a former mega church pastor, the author of numerous books on spirituality, including Love Wins; Everything is Spiritual and Sex God. He hosts a podcast, The Robcast. He creates talks about big issues like the meaning of life and then takes in on tour to theaters all over the place. He hosts retreats in Ojai, California Eight years ago, almost to the day, I interviewed Rob for the first time. It what turned out to be three different Skype calls, over...
ROB BELL
Rob Bell is always evolving, always pushing the boundaries of his creative expression and spiritual understanding. It's what I admire most about his work and what's helped transform my own life. But I didn't always see it this way. Rob Bell is a former mega church...
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BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
“I know boundaried communities that produce good fruit. But when I look at tribalism, which is excluding and saying anybody not within this boundary is going to hell, the fruits of that aren’t lovely. They aren’t nourishing. I’d rather be a pantheist.”
TIM HEIDECKER
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JAMES FINLEY
“You can be an enlightened asshole. You just haven’t integrated your brokenness into the enlightenment.”
SUNLESS KHAN
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DJ Semtex
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Mel White
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FRANCESCA STAVRAKOPOULOU
“I get a lot of hate mail, death threats and rape threats..I think the violence of their response to me reflects just how frightened they are by these ideas. They accuse me of blasphemy and various other things, but actually it reflects their deep seated insecurities…What if my ideas about the world and the next life are not real?”
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
“I know boundaried communities that produce good fruit. But when I look at tribalism, which is excluding and saying anybody not within this boundary is going to hell, the fruits of that aren’t lovely. They aren’t nourishing. I’d rather be a pantheist.”
TIM HEIDECKER
“As a creative person you need the ability to be open to the world changing around you. There’s things we did in our past that we wouldn’t do now. Culture changes. People’s perceptions change.”
JAMES FINLEY
“You can be an enlightened asshole. You just haven’t integrated your brokenness into the enlightenment.”
SUNLESS KHAN
“Rocket League is just like a game of life. You’re going to get teammates that are not empathetic and only see their perspective…It’s about becoming better at lifting them up even if they’re making mistakes. Also, a big thing is not knowing if the other person is literally nine years old.”
DJ Semtex
“I condemn everything [Ye] stands for right now. I’ve said that from when he first put on the MAGA hat…He’s one of the greatest musicians ever, one of the greatest creative visionaries, but he’s destroyed so much within a couple of months.”
Mel White
"I dislike Trump hugely. But if he is impeached, and we get Pence, then we get a man who knows what a theocracy is and is willing to bet his life on it." Millions of Americans had visceral reactions to Donald Trump winning the Presidency. But for Mel White and...
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"We’ve already had a Clinton in the White House. We know exactly what’s going to happen...This is like House of Cards. Frank Underwood doesn’t work alone, he works with his wife." Who does Abby Martin think she is? She's white. American. She has her own TV show. She's...
Rob Bell
"Somebody claiming that I’m somehow dangerous, or I’ve wandered off the path, is just absurd...When you get through the pain of being misunderstood, your wounds begin to heal and then in some way you become dangerous. Because our worst fear that somebody wouldn’t like...