{"id":664,"date":"2006-07-08T04:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2006\/07\/rob-bell-hits-the-rock-venue-circuit.html"},"modified":"2006-07-08T04:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-08T04:45:00","slug":"rob-bell-hits-the-rock-venue-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2006\/07\/rob-bell-hits-the-rock-venue-circuit.html","title":{"rendered":"Rob Bell Hits the Rock Venue Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am providing here a link to a New York Times article about Rob Bell&#8217;s  summer tour, which does not rely on multi-media pyrotechnics  yet is appealing to many young folks around the land. Read the article and give me your reaction. I personally like what he is doing, having meaningful conversations with a Christian orientation to audiences in secular venues.   Here is the link. The original article is in Saturday&#8217;s paper.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/08\/us\/08minister.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th&amp;oref=slogin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am providing here a link to a New York Times article about Rob Bell&#8217;s summer tour, which does not rely on multi-media pyrotechnics yet is appealing to many young folks around the land. Read the article and give me your reaction. 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