'I've had a sense since I was young that there's more going on here, that the world is not a cold, dead place but it's alive in some compelling and mysterious way.This book is about that sense.I've tried to listen to it,and follow it,and trust it.It's been devastating at times, intoxicating at others, heartbreaking and maddening and euphoric - how do you make sense of this experience we're having here on this ball of rock hurtling through space at 67,000 miles an hour? There are the big questions - everything is made of particles and atoms and the universe has been expanding for 13 billion years?And then there are those other questions - about the people and places and events that have shaped us - however massive and cosmic it all is,it's also really, really personal.And spiritual.That's the word for it.Everything is spiritual.'Rob Bell'Nobody else can take ancient teachings and modern science, and blend them together into wisdom that makes sense to me and heals me. Rob's unorthodox and bold thinking stirs my intellect, comforts my heart and makes me believe that - within all the frightening chaos of the unknowable universe - I still have a sacred place. His work is a sacred gift to a troubled world.' Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and City of Girls

Rob Bell might have left the church, but he will always be my minister - in the purest and most uncorrupted sense of that word. Nobody else can take ancient teachings and modern science, and blend them together into wisdom that makes sense to me, and heals me. Rob's unorthodox and bold thinking stirs my intellect, comforts my heart and makes me believe that - within all the frightening chaos of the unknowable universe - I still have a sacred place. His work is a sacred gift to a troubled world.