Rob Bell. Mark Driscoll. Don Miller. Rachel Held Evans. These are just a few of the names of those who’ve been the direct targets of what author Karen Spears Zacharias described as ‘internet gang rape’. (Editor’s Note: It should mentioned Karen was also victim of this phenomenon.) In the...

(Editor’s note:  This article was written for Rachel Held Evans’ Rally to Restore Unity—a week-long celebration of Christian unity and fundraising effort for Charity:Water) From where I sit – comfortably, I might add – a lot of people are walking around with massive wedgies these days. ...

Now that the dust has settled from the controversy over Rob Bell’s latest book that rocked the Christian world, and inspired not one, not two, but three Burnside posts, I figured it was time to approach the subject that very few people (myself included) took into consideration  when writing their...

I’ve spent the last few weeks taking a slow, chapter-by-chapter look at Rob Bell’s important new book Love Wins on my blog. If you are interested in walking through those posts as you read the book, you’d want to begin here. I’m certainly not the final word in this discussion,...

It says a lot about the state of Christianity, that a 9.0 earthquake and devastating tsunami hit Japan last week, yet all we want to talk about is whether or not Rob Bell is going to hell. It says even more that many of the people initially claiming he was, (or at least bidding him farewell) hadn’t...

Over the weekend twitter was a buzz over Rob Bell’s soon to be released book, Love Wins. I read the articles, the tweets, the Facebook updates. And I was actually shocked at all the hoopla from people who had not even read the book.  Why were they freaking out? Because of the questions. Many...

They said to him, “Say Shibboleth”, and he said “Sibboleth” because he could not pronounce it. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Edomites fell. “ Judges 12:6 I’m fascinated and a little saddened by a habit...

It’s been over a year since we last spoke to mega-church phenomenon Rob Bell, pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Today, Burnside Writers Collective correspondent John Wofford talks about the completion of the popular Nooma teaching series, Bell’s reaction to recent developments...

In his second book, Sex God, Rob Bell delivers a fashionable treatise for dealing with sexuality in the open. “It’s always about something else,” Bell says, “Something deeper. Something behind it all. You can’t talk about sexuality without talking about how we were made....