Even if hell is not clearly taught in the Old Testament, progressive revelation is supposed to fill in the gaps. That is the assumption most of us grew up with. The Hebrew Scriptures are ancient, uneven, and strange. They belong to another world. The New Testament, on the other

How much more of this are we going to take?

Every year, millions of Jewish people still greet one another with the words, “May you be inscribed in the Book of Life.” Christians read the same phrase and imagine hell. Before we go any farther, we need to slow down and get our bearings. Up to this point in the What the

When I was about nine or ten years old, my church showed us a movie called A Thief in the Night. They told us it was a Christian film. It wasn’t. It was a horror movie made for children. The premise was simple and terrifying. Jesus returned in the middle of the night and

Would Charlie have given the stage to Nikki Minaj?

The Lake of Fire appears only after death itself is thrown into it. Either death truly died – or it didn’t. That single detail should have ended Hell centuries ago. Instead, it became the most feared image in Christianity. In the last article, the Lake of Fire was dismantled as

Trump needs to do something FAST to cover up all these redacted files actually being about him. What do you think he will do?

When I first moved into this house, the yard looked green from a distance. Healthy, even. But once I stepped into it, I realized there was no grass at all. It was a jungle. Invasive trees. Thorny bushes growing wherever they wanted. Some were so large they looked permanent.

Once you know the gate is there, you start asking a different question. Not what else might be hidden, but what was hiding it. When I cleared the largest growth from my yard, the jungle didn’t disappear. What changed was scale. The towering trees were gone, but what remained was

Every day, Jared had to take a PCR test to see whether he tested positive for Covid, just like millions of other people who still had to go to work in the middle of the pandemic. Most days, people breathed a sigh of relief when they passed. They went about their lives reassured

Only Venezuelans would truly understand.