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Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

by Rob Bell

St. Martin's Essentials ·2020 ·320 pages
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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, that 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 big questions: Everything is made of particles and atoms, and the universe has been expanding for thirteen 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. That's the sense I've been following for a while now——this awareness that there's something bigger happening in the depth and complexity and struggle of life, something that connects us all, reminding us that it all matters and it's all headed somewhere. Part memoir, part confession, part extended riff on the endlessly evolving nature of reality, Everything Is Spiritual is an invitation to see what you've been a part of this whole time.


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"While...Bell's focus on the power of and necessity for love is reassuring, the abstract quality of the prose might lose some readers."

Gail Eubanks· Library Journal Read review ↗ Maybe Someday

"Bell is less interested in answers than he is in diving into the complicated layers of life and love, and learning to embrace every bit of his own story ..."

Katie Noah Gibson· Shelf Awareness Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"He is an expert at identifying and making sense of paradoxes, whether referencing the continuity of generations or the fragility of maintaining relationships ..."

June Sawyers· Booklist Read review ↗ Near the Top

"Yet even these ideas don't convey smoothly, as the author unnecessarily camouflages them within a garden of chopped-up phrases."

Kirkus Read review ↗ Bottom of the Pile

"Former evangelical Christian pastor Bell...persuasively preaches a gospel of embracing one's story in this enjoyable mix of memoir and sermon ..."

Publishers Weekly Read review ↗ Near the Top

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