By now you’ve heard of Rob Bell, and have perhaps heard of the stir caused by the prominent preacher’s emerging views on hell.
…at the centre of this media storm was a web designer from Yorkshire, called Rob Bell. Having managed to secure the Twitter name @robbell, hundreds of people mistook him for the other Rob Bell. And he seems to have been rather enjoying the mix up, responding to some of the tweets directed to him in error, and now doing an interview with blogger and writer Rachel Held Evans.
My favourite @robbell tweet so far is “nonchristian? Strictly speaking, I’m confirmed C of E, so a Christian, although my views are more universalist these days :)”
For what it’s worth, Rob Bell the pastor tweets on the handle @realrobbell – not that Bell the web designer isn’t real, mind you, just that his identity was, well, Robbed.
h/t Church Mouse