What We Talk about When We Talk about God

We have more information and technology than ever; we're interacting with a far more diverse range of people. And the tribal God - the one who's right, which means everybody else is wrong - is increasingly perceived to be small, narrow, irrelevant, sometimes even mean, and at other times just not that intelligent. Is God going to be left behind?

Bell tackles the misconceptions about God, showing how God is not being left behind but is with us, for us, and ahead of us, and explains how understanding this could change the entire course of our lives.

Bell believes we need to drop our primitive, tribal views of God and instead understand the God who wants us to become who we were designed to be, a God who created a universe of quarks and quantum string dynamics, but who also gives meaning to why new-born babies and stories of heroes and sacrifice inspire in us a deep reverence. What We Talk About When We Talk About God will reveal that God is not in need of repair to catch him up with today’s world so much as we need to discover the God who goes before us and beckons us forward.