If we started down the road of questioning the validity of hell, who knows what kind of world we might end up with? Read more
If we started down the road of questioning the validity of hell, who knows what kind of world we might end up with? Read more
Lots of Christians today are asking the question, “Is hell real?” But that’s like a football coach asking his players if they can dunk the next ball. Wrong question. Wrong game. Missing the point. Here’s something I find acutely unpleasant: conversations that ostensibly are about answering a question to which, in fact, there is no knowable answer. Getting stuck in a conversation like that transmogrifies my medulla oblongata into a crack-snorting hamster on a wheel. So, to state something so... Read more
If evangelicals are serious about wanting to save people from hell, they need to stop preaching hell. Read more
So I ended up cutting some stuff from the first third of Patheos.com: Why I Turned Them Down, But Guess Others Won’t, one of my two posts from yesterday. (The other post — the better one — is What Jesus Really Meant by the Story of Lazarus). I was ultimately sort of basically too shy to publish what I cut; plus, I felt it sort of rendered the post too bifurcated. (That’s right: I roll with the big words that... Read more
The last thing I would write online. Read more
The story of Lazarus is no more about hell being a real place than the story of the Three Little Pigs is about farm animals being architects. Read more
Who wants to be in a relationship because they're afraid of what will happen to them if they're not? Read more
What looks like the end of HuffPo's religion section is probably just its beginning. Read more
Surprise! It’s a coconut shredder!!!!!!!! I just didn’t have the heart to wait until Wednesday to reveal to you all the identity of our mystery object. I could tell it was driving you guys bonkers. The suspense of finally learning what is! It was just too much for you to bear, I know. And the simple truth is I love you guys too much to watch you suffer. I didn’t have it in me to let your anticipatory agonizing over... Read more
This weekend I came across this object for sale in a thrift store. Be the first to correctly identify what it is, and I’ll send you your choice of an autographed and inscribed copy of either of my two books, or a JohnShore.com tee-shirt. Contest closes Wednesday morning, May 18, 8 a.m. PST. Mucho fun was had when I did this before here, and another time here. No one correctly guessed what either of those two items was—and I’m not... Read more
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