I have just finished reading Rob Bell’s latest book, titled What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything. I really loved it and I think every evangelical should read it. The book does not say anything new, nor does the author claim to do so. It merely presents at a popular level what theologians and Bible scholars have said about it in the last hundred years.

You may ask, what is then so important about it? Here is my answer.

I believe that evangelicalism is in a deep crisis. The unquestioning support given by American evangelicals to Donald Trump is only a symptom of a more serious disease characterised, among other things, by:

a deep crisis of spirituality – reducing intimacy with God to ethicism – especially in sexual ma...