Jerusalem the Golden
By Mac Stewart
We should think about heaven more. Yes, I know: it’s important to avoid being so heavenly minded as to be no earthly good; we mustn’t promise people pie in the sky when they die as an excuse f... Read More...
The Four Last Things Redux
By Hannah Bowman
The traditional “four last things” of Advent — death, judgment, heaven, and hell — direct Christians’ attention to the world to come. But these Advent themes speak as well to the work alrea... Read More...
“Hell is Other People,” but Heaven Can’t Be: The Good Place’s Unintentionally Augustinian Outcome
With its final door, The Good Place proves useful for our journey once more: we cannot stop here, we must journey on.
Advent, The Four Last Things: Heaven
But what if heaven is not primarily a place of peace, but instead a community, created by communal participation in the divine life? Such a conception of heaven allows us to begin to imagine it as a place of communal accountability — a place where all can be welcome only because all are responsible to one another: a place of justice.
Space, Gender, and Heavenly Bodies
To imagine there’s no heaven is to live on an extremely boring Earth.
The hope of glory
In Romans 8, St. Paul develops the contrast between present sufferings and future glory.
Eclipsing the heavens
We live in an age of diminished faith, and of dead, eclipsed gods.
What the Ascension is (and isn’t)
The Ascension is a real departure and a real exaltation into the heavens. At the same time, we are sure that his body is present with us in mysteries and sacraments: in Eucharist and Baptism, in the gathered church, in particular saints.