heaven

Andrew DeCort considers the Roman Empire’s desire to kill a heretical Jewish missionary.

Anthony D. Baker observes the limits of eschatology in the twentieth century’s two greatest preachers.

Certain strands of friendship can cross distances, but others—regretfully—are broken.

Vic Sizemore reviews Robert Clark’s latest novel, Heaven, which tracks the love affair between two men during the heyday of the American dream.

In the poem, MEH considers the draws of appetite and desire, for both food and God, as “sometimes sweet, often bitter…(a) blind rage which pursues us through the day…”

One interpretation has collapsed; but because it was considered the interpretation it now seems as if there were no meaning at all in existence, as if everything were in vain. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power[i] I grew up in a family obsessed—blessedly so, I believe—with what we might call the “biblical specifics.” Baptized […]

After resurrection, Jesus acted strange, materializing through solid wood, even though he didn’t look that different. The gashes seeped still, varnishing the tentative hand, the fingers that needed to know him new. Let me say how strange I feel, trusting this to be true—that a body can be both mortally wounded and whole enough to […]