I haven't read the book either Andy. I received the link to the info in a weekly newsletter. Just thought it was interesting and rather refreshing - especially this part.
In the book, Bell criticizes the belief that a select number of Christians will spend eternity in the bliss of heaven while everyone else is tormented forever in hell.
"This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus?s message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear," he writes in the book.