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Getting the Last Things Right

It's right to celebrate the hope of the bodily resurrection, but perhaps there is more to be said about that intermediate state after death.

Jerusalem the Golden

By Mac Stewart We should think about heaven more. Yes, I know: it’s important to avoid being so heavenly minded as to be no earthly...

The Four Last Things Redux

By Hannah Bowman The traditional “four last things” of Advent — death, judgment, heaven, and hell — direct Christians’ attention to the world to...

“Hell is Other People,” but Heaven Can’t Be: The Good Place’s Unintentionally Augustinian Outcome

With its final door, The Good Place proves useful for our journey once more: we cannot stop here, we must journey on.

Advent, The Four Last Things: Heaven

But what if heaven is not primarily a place of peace, but instead a community, created by communal participation in the divine life? Such a conception of heaven allows us to begin to imagine it as a place of communal accountability — a place where all can be welcome only because all are responsible to one another: a place of justice.

Reveling in Hope

When I saw that the New Cambridge Singers and the Cambridge Baroque Camerata would perform Bach’s last triumphant masterwork, I knew I would not miss it.

Space, Gender, and Heavenly Bodies

To imagine there’s no heaven is to live on an extremely boring Earth.

The hope of glory

In Romans 8, St. Paul develops the contrast between present sufferings and future glory.

Eclipsing the heavens

We live in an age of diminished faith, and of dead, eclipsed gods.

Pastoral Care in Death’s Path

By Steve Waring • After brushes with death, people “don’t want their rector to scoff at their most cherished, precious memories.”

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