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Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
Restoration
Profoundly
Desperate
Somewhere
Somebody
Justice
Wrong
Something

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Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.
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