Christ the Phoenix

by Hans Boersma

With 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 »

23 Nov 2022

Reunion on the Far Shore

by Gilbert Meilaender

Heaven,” 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 »

1 Feb 2022

Small Mysteries of Time and Memory

by John Wilson

The 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 »

24 Sep 2021

Heaven Is a Concert Hall

by Peter J. Leithart

The Spirit won’t stop until all creation is heavenized, until all things unite in praise. Continue Reading »

9 Jul 2021

Theological Fraud

by Michael Pakaluk

David 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 »

6 Feb 2020

Opiate of the Theologians

by Michael McClymond

Not 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 »

1 Dec 2019

Heaven is Real

by John Wilson

Why is it that our expectations for the life to come are so rarely mentioned? Continue Reading »

19 Apr 2019

Angels of Advent

by Peter J. Leithart

The hosts of heaven proclaim the good news that in Jesus mankind has reached its destiny.  Continue Reading »

30 Nov 2018

Heaven in Ohio?

by Jerry L. Walls

A 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 »

8 Sep 2016

Last Things

by Mats Wahlberg

Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory: Rethinking the Things that Matter Mostby jerry l. wallsbrazos, 240 pages, $19.99 The opening sentence of this book declares that it “deals with the most important questions you will ever think about.” Jerry Walls—a philosophy professor at Houston Baptist . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2016