Angela Alaimo O’Donnell

Flannery and Dante

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell riffs on Flannery O’Connor’s fandom of Dante Alighieri.

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Annette Marquis

The Faces of Hell

When violence strikes a church on a Sunday morning, it challenges us to question the meaning of hell and the power of love.

Tripp York

The Non-Existence of Evil, Free Thinking, and Kant’s Love Child

I’ve found that one of the more interesting theological claims made by historical Christianity is in relation to the so-called problem of evil. Traditionally speaking, evil is not a significant problem in classical Christian thought because evil does not exist. In short, as I am sure you are well aware, the claim is that evil […]

David Dark

Bell Rings True: A Review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins

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 […]

Tripp York

RIP Johnny Storm–At Least You Can’t Burn in Hell

“Let’s do it for Johnny, man!” Normally, I despise killing in comic books (and not because I’m a Mennonite). I despise them because those who are killed, if they remain remotely marketable, are always resurrected (again, as a Mennonite I’m good with resurrection). It’s such a terrible way to create hype, to make money, and […]

Nik Ansell

Hell: The Nemesis of Hope?

Nicholas Ansell looks at the doctrine of hell in contemporary evangelicalism using John Stott’s view of hell as a point of critical reflection on the subject