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Straight to Hell
From the youngest of children to the eldest among us, none of us can resist the urge to wonder deeply about what will happen to us after our short lives here on Earth are over. The question itself is deeply human and has a way of penetrating time, culture, income-level, place, and way of...
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Springtime Can Wait: A Love Story With Persephone And Hades
To make myself feel better about how long springtime takes to truly arrive, I imagine a love story between Persephone, the Goddess of Spring, and her husband Hades, God of the Underworld....
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A Dialogue on the Duration of Hell
As many of you know, I’ve been wrestling with the concept of hell for quite some time. It started back in 2011, when Francis Chan and I wrote Erasing Hell, which explored and defended the traditional view that hell is irreversible. Since then, I’ve come to appreciate the exegetical...
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Librarians: Humanity's Soul Collectors
Between all the public, academic, private, and special libraries out there is the aggregation of most of humanity's thoughts and thus our very souls.
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Leaving Las Vegas: Returning with Hope and Promise of a Better World
Like many of you, my heart is boiling with fire raging blood in response to the tragic events in Las Vegas. The very last thing any of us needed right now was to mourn another senseless, possibly preventable, mass shooting, the worst America has seen. We are still mourning the refugee...
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Vs. J. Oliveira #6: Bible & Purgatory
Juan Oliveira attempts many futile & bad arguments against purgatory, but fails to interact at all with scores of relevant passages that I bring up from Holy Scripture.
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