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Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Rob Bell

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