Hi friends, Rob Bell here and I am thrilled to welcome you to my new podcast, which is called,

of course, the Robcast. It's 2015. It's the beginning of a new year and what better time to start a new

Robcast. So we have all sorts of ground to cover, all sorts of things to talk about. If you have

questions, send them to questionsatrobbell.com if you'd like because I'll be over the course of these

Robcasts dealing with a lot of questions that you have. I've been doing the series on Tumblr called,

What Is the Bible? And what happened over time on the Tumblr is the questions you were sending me,

I started thinking, wait, these aren't questions about the Bible necessarily. These are questions about

life, spirituality, God-faith. What does it look like to have a spiritual life in this new world

that we find ourselves in? I believe that everything is spiritual. There's this ancient story about

Moses and the burning bush and the rabbis, the sages would say that Moses, when he comes across the

bush, the bush doesn't suddenly start burning. The bush has been burning the whole time. It's just

that Moses, all of the sudden, realizes it. So the question is, are you and I passing burning

bushes all the time, but we're missing them. We're too busy, we're too distracted, we're asleep,

we aren't awake and we're missing death and meaning and joy and significance of every moment

of every day. That's what drives me and that's what I love to talk about. Now, before I get into

today's topic, a couple of things. A couple of months ago, my wife and I had a new book come out,

Kristen and I sat down side by side for a year and a half and wrote a book about marriage called

the Zimzum of Love. It's about a new way of understanding marriage as the space between two people.

So in the book, we explore what is this space? How does it work? What does it look like? And how can you

make the love and energy in this space flow between you all the more? So at different times,

in the course of these Robcasts, there's always the chance Kristen will show up and we will talk

about the Zimzum. So that's Zimzum of Love and then secondly, in March, I'm going to be doing an event

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