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If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
Doubts
Deepest
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