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<\/a>On Sunday, I used an Audible credit to download, Rob Bell\u2019s new book on marriage written and narrated with his wife,\u00a0 called, \u201cThe Zimzum of Love: A New Way Of Understanding Marriage\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 Since Sunday morning I\u2019ve listened to the book three times. It\u2019s just that good.\u00a0 It\u2019s short ( a little over two and had hours long), the theological language is accessible, the approach to faith is inclusive, and the production of the audiobook is flawless.<\/p>\n Rob and Kristen read back and forth, bantering over a jacket and uncomfortable phone calls, asking questions, and\u00a0 telling stories from their marriage with an easy grace you can tell they\u2019ve refined over their past twenty years together.\u00a0 When I finished, I ran into the living room where my husband was and said, \u201cit\u2019s like sitting across the table from the Bells!\u201d<\/p>\n I could just tell if I asked them to speak truth into my marriage this would be it: that marriage is more than roles and rules, positional authority or patriarchy, essence and equality.\u00a0 Marriage is the thing between two people who fall in love with each other and then make room for each other.<\/strong>\u00a0 Marriage is important not just because it somehow reflects Jesus\u2019 relationship to the church, but because if reflects the very self-giving nature of God (or what theo-nerds, like my husband, call, \u201ckenosis\u201d).\u00a0 Marriage is important because where there is love, sacrifice, forgiveness, and tenderness there is shalom.\u00a0 And shalom is my favorite.<\/p>\n If I\u2019m honest, I knew \u201cThe Zimzum of Love\u201d\u00a0<\/a> would be a slam dunk for me when my husband posted the trailer for the book and commented, \u201cGood Trinitarian theology here!\u201d<\/p>\n