I just spent the better part of the morning thinking I was Nancy Drew.  It all started when I went to this website.  Then I saw an article by Rob Bell….score…I’m a fan. 

Side note:  I actually clicked on it cause I thought it said "Rob Bell on Saving Christmas" and I had just been thinking about how I didn’t want to waste Christmas.  But then I realized it didn’t say Christmas…it said Christians.  If I had a dollar for every time I did that… 

Anyway, so I read the article and noticed something interesting.  Every so often a letter was in bold.  At first I thought it was a type-o, but then I thought "hmmm…maybe it’s a secret message!"  I’m not sure what it says about me that I thought that, but guess what?!  I was right!  It WAS a secret message!  The message said "email rob at nooma dot com".  So I did.  Then I got a response that was just railing on this group called the Citizens of Virtue.  Then the email said that there were 7 people inside this group that were trying to get out.  Rob said he couldn’t help them because he was afraid more harm would come to them!  Then he said if I went to his book’s website there would be more info on how to help them.  Ok, I’ll bite.  So I went to the website.  Then I clicked on the link that said "help the seven".  Nothing.  Just some page with boxes on it.  What the heck is going on here?!  So being Nancy Drew I googled Citizens of Virtue and found their website.  After a lot of reading I came to the conclusion that these people were wack-o’s!  But I still didn’t understand why Rob Bell was making it his job to speak out against these people.  That’s when I decided to enlist some help.  I went and told McCall all that I had found.  I think she thought I was crazy.  So I told her to go to the site and within five seconds she figured out that it wasn’t real.  It’s all just made up!  Can you believe that?!  I got hoodwinked!  (ps what does that word even mean?) 

The Citizens of Virtue are not a real group, but the people behind this new book have done an amazing job at creating an alternate world….and of making me want to read the book.  Well done marketing people…well done.  Mike always said I was sharp as a marble. 

So the moral of the story is Rob Bell has a new book coming out called Jesus Wants to Save Christians and he wants you to read it.  That and I’m a marble.