Hope in an Age of Nay-Saying
by Carl R. TruemanThe spirit of Mephistopheles is truly seductive, as Goethe well knew. Thankfully, however, there is still hope. Continue Reading »
Christ the Phoenix
by Hans BoersmaWith all the past persecutions of Christians in mind, what does Jesus mean when he says, “Not a hair of your head will perish”? Continue Reading »
Reunion on the Far Shore
by Gilbert MeilaenderHeaven,” Jonathan Edwards says in the fifteenth and last of his Charity Sermons, “is a World of Love.” In saying this, however, he did not seem to have in mind what many of us might -immediately hope for or suppose. To be sure, in one of his Miscellanies, asking himself “whether the . . . . Continue Reading »
Small Mysteries of Time and Memory
by John WilsonThe small mysteries of time and memory point beyond themselves, suggesting that more lies ahead of us in a reality that exceeds our grasp but which we will someday know firsthand. Continue Reading »
Heaven Is a Concert Hall
by Peter J. LeithartThe Spirit won’t stop until all creation is heavenized, until all things unite in praise. Continue Reading »
Theological Fraud
by Michael PakalukDavid Bentley Hart has somehow twisted St. Basil’s warnings against the Devil’s trickery into—what Basil himself would call—support for the Devil and his purposes. Continue Reading »
Opiate of the Theologians
by Michael McClymondNot until the nineteenth century did any Christian body make universal salvation its official teaching. The first to do so, the Universalist Church, later merged with another to form the Unitarian Universalist Association. Within the mainstream churches, medieval and early-modern universalists led a . . . . Continue Reading »
Heaven is Real
by John WilsonWhy is it that our expectations for the life to come are so rarely mentioned? Continue Reading »
Angels of Advent
by Peter J. LeithartThe hosts of heaven proclaim the good news that in Jesus mankind has reached its destiny. Continue Reading »
Heaven in Ohio?
by Jerry L. WallsA book by Donald Ray Pollock is always an entertaining ride, by turns riveting, hilarious, revolting, and poignant. But reading Pollock can be surreal if you grew up a mile down the road from him in Knockemstiff, Ohio. Continue Reading »
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