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  <title><![CDATA[Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith]]></title>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[1)  I really like Bell's enthusiasm and passion for helping people break out of a religious system that many times can be boring and basically anything but alive.  Sometimes I think that I myself am far too intertwined with this system which, although good in many ways, is still man-made.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11025585">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 27 15:52:37 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 27 16:06:14 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book has tremendously helpful applications. There are so many challenges that are expressed through the genuine reflection of the current state of Christianity. The challenge to think deeply and to ask questions about what Christianity is and what it means. These are helpful bits of adv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5191180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4657998">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone disillusioned w/ Christianity; anyone with an interest in faith in the modern world]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 16 14:45:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 27 19:53:14 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recently, I've been doing a lot of writing concerning my own beliefs and faith practices.  It tends to come up occasionally amongst my group of friends, as I'm one of only a few (if any?) practicing Christians, and I tend to think a lot about faith issues generally because my church tends to be very...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4657998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19379079">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 03 11:23:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 04 11:33:12 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Keeping in mind that this is the first &quot;Christian&quot; book I've ever finished and that I loath going into &quot;Christian&quot; stores and purchasing things produced by &quot;Christian&quot; companies my review of this book will consist only of a single idea portrayed in the piece that is wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19379079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11101982">
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    <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 27 13:39:48 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 27 15:20:39 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am watching the Nooma video series that Rob Bell does so I decided to read this book to understand his theology. I was concerned. For one, I found often that his analogies or explanations were so vague that I often wondered &quot;and what does that mean!&quot;<br/><br/>Unfortunately as I read Ve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11101982">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8338188">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 27 23:43:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 30 22:59:56 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Did I enjoy this book?  Yes and no.  Do I think this book makes a valuable contribution to Christian literature?  Yes and no.<br/><br/>Firstly, there is nothing exorbitantly wrong in this book.  I think there are ideas in it which are over emphasized and exalted maybe a little too much.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8338188">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1097604">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Mindy, Brandy, religious thinkers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 08 06:24:59 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 01 06:37:21 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised at how much of the time I found myself agreeing with Rob Bell. His central theme—that we can't continue to talk to people about faith and do things the same old way—is true. The way my parents talked about faith, entered into worship, and told others about God really just don't w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1097604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17153586">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 06 08:18:53 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 22 16:40:25 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was everything I feared it would be.  I trust &quot;emerging&quot; Christianity about as much as previous iterations (boomers, mega churches, the religious right, etc)...which is to say, not much.<br/><br/>Bell sounds just like every other emerging guy out there...interpreting the bible ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17153586">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2914766">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jul 10 13:38:55 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rob Bell has a unique way of looking at the world. <br/><br/>As I was reading Velvet Elvis, I felt almost like I was reading a 21st century, not-so-academic, C. S. Lewis. Bell has a knack for creating effective illustrations out of quite mundane items (bricks and walls, trampolines, for example)....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2914766">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2754835">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 05 19:01:24 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 08 09:21:56 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rob Bell is an interesting Christian leader. I hold some negative opinions toward the &quot;Emerging/Emergent&quot; church--I don't particularly care for the way they obsess about marketing Jesus. In general, the movement treats Jesus as a product and although they advertise Him in a very attractive...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2754835">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10141184">
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    <body><![CDATA[Dangerous.]]></body>
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    <review id="24424196">
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    <name><![CDATA[Leah]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 11 08:43:43 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been rather reluctant to start this book, but last night I could barely put it down.  The book really does attempt to &quot;repaint the Christian faith&quot; by asking questions and exploring different interpretations of scripture in such a way that would probably offend many traditional chur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24424196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19410721">
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    <name><![CDATA[Penny]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis and a few ranting and raving reviews, I’m not going to comment on the fine points of Bell’s theology. Some are fine, and some are brittle. But, I would like to comment on the spiritual trampoline metaphor from my own experience.<br/>	I had a friend who ow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19410721">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 01 16:01:32 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 01 16:30:02 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is highly poetic, which increases its resonance but it is still very much a book for Christians. I wish I could recommend it to non-believers as an example of unique and intelligent progressive Christian thinking, but so much of his language depends on at least a cursory knowledge of the fa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7107690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35850026">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I will say after first reading this book I was excited. But after I chewed on it a bit I became uneasy about a lot of Rob Bell's theology or lack there of. Theres just too much wishy-washy here. I can tell that there is a desire to know and come to an understanding of God and I can even relate to so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35850026">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16227827">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 24 01:34:49 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 24 01:37:49 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty much the same line of thought as &quot;Mere Christianity&quot; addressing some crucial issues of our faith, but it fixed a fatal flaw of C.S. Lewis' work: It was written in a contemporary format that invites younger, less academic, but sold-out-for-Jesus readers to carry on with verver to the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16227827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Somewhere in my basement sits a Velvet Elvis - a painting of the King himself, air-brushed onto black velvet in a wooden frame.<br/>What if the painter of my Velvet Elvis announced there was no more need to paint, that he had painted the ultimate painting? We would think he had lost his mind ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43097548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it/studied it 5 times (underlined, highlighted, scribbled 6 pages of interesting quotes) trying to understand what my friends find so intriguing about this disillusioned &quot;post-Christian&quot; and what he is trying to propagate. I finally came to the conclusion that he spends the pages pl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39778253">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've heard this book compared to Donald Miller's &quot;Blue Like Jazz,&quot; and though I understand why the comparison is made (both young, hip Christian authors examining the Christian faith), I will say I was much more impacted by &quot;Blue Like Jazz.&quot;  However, Rob Bell does an excellent j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5515500">more...</a>]]></body>
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