We are expecting a large crowd tonight at the Belcourt Theater here in Nashville. Frank Schaeffer, Michael Hardin and I will being doing a Q&A following the screening. After that, we are heading across the street to continue the conversation at the Fido Cafe. Everything gets underway at 7pm. I hope to see you there! Read more
Catholic apologist Peter Kreeft on hell from Kevin Miller on Vimeo. Read more
I don’t recall Einstein ever threatening people that they would burn in hell if they refused to accept his theory of general relativity. The same goes for Newton, Kepler, Copernicus, Archimedes, Planck, Bohr, Curie, Bacon, Faraday, Feynman, Darwin, Hubble and a host of other scientists who revolutionized the way we understand the universe. There was no need for them to threaten us with hellfire, because the accuracy of their calculations and conceptual models could easily be measured against the real... Read more
It’s hard to believe that after 19 long months, we are just 7 days away from our first public screening of Hellbound? And it’s not just a screening. Several members of the film making team will be there, in addition to “cast members” Frank Schaeffer and Michael Hardin. Everything gets underway at 7pm at the Belcourt Theater in Nashville. We’ll screen the film, do Q&A in the theater, and then head across the street to the Fido Cafe. If you’re... Read more
When you make a movie about hell (especially if it has a question mark at the end of the title), one thing is guaranteed: You’re going to get into a lot of debates. In fact, apart from finishing and promoting Hellbound?, that’s pretty much all I do these days—debate, debate, debate. Online, at the dinner table, in the locker room and on the road, once people find out what I’m doing, there’s no escaping it. Not surprisingly, everyone I meet... Read more
Anyone who thinks filmmaking is glamorous should try making a documentary sometime. Better yet, try promoting one. For a high profile film like The Hobbit, promotion means having Peter Jackson premiere an exclusive clip to hundreds of adoring fans at Comic-Con and then flying back home to New Zealand in his private jet. For a low budget documentary like Hellbound?, it looks more like some poor schmuck (usually me) standing outside a big, black tent at a dusty, blazing hot Christian music festival handing... Read more
In light of my recent blog posts addressing what I see as significant problems inherent in Reformed Christianity, penal substitution views of the atonement and the like, I thought it might be helpful to post this outtake from Brian McLaren’s Hellbound? interview. Enjoy! Is God Violent? Brian McLaren gives his POV from Kevin Miller on Vimeo. Read more
It’s not often that you’ll find me sitting in church these days. Due to my hectic travel schedule, the 8:30am service time and my increasing ambivalence about institutional Christianity, my attendance record is rather spotty. But last Sunday there I was, two rows from the back, waiting for the service to start. Normally, it would have been a great time to catch up on email. But I figured the elderly ladies sitting nearby would frown at that. So I picked... Read more
Thanks to a prod from Graham Ware, I’m currently reading Clark. H. Pinnock’s excellent essay The Destruction of the Finally Impenitent. Published in 1990, Pinnock’s essay critiques the “traditional” doctrine of hell as eternal torment for the wicked and argues for the (then) radical notion of Annihilationism–the belief that the “impenitent wicked suffer extinction and annihilation” rather than unending torment in hell. Early on in the essay, Pinnock recognizes that he is embracing a minority view. Even though other prominent... Read more
James Eagan Holmes allegedly slaughters 12 people at a movie theater in Colorado. Survivor Stephanie Davies describes the event: “We were laying there, literally in the mouth of hell.” Anders Behring Breivik kills 69 people at a summer camp in Norway. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg seeks to capture his grief: “It was a paradise of my youth that has now been turned into hell.” A tsunami devastates the Tōhoku region of Japan, killing thousands. Daily Mail reporter Alex Thompson describes... Read more
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