AI SUMMARY: This essay explores how both angels and humans were created with legitimate but potentially competing desires—self-fulfillment and union with God—and how sin arises…
My friend Rob over at Defending the Biblical Roots of Christianity asked if I could come on his show to talk about one of my…
At last year’s annual Rethinking Hell conference, instead of having high profile speakers, we had some of us team members share. I shared in the…
That is a good question, but of course Christians have already considered this. There are many possible responses. 1. Christianity Collapses OMG we were wrong,…
This series, written in response to challenges from atheists on Facebook, contains the following articles: Heaven: Part 1 – The difficulty of conceiving of heaven
This post is part of a series. Imagine a world where there is no sorrow, no disease and no death. Imagine life without fear, and…
Therefore, let us leave the elementary teaching about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, faith…
Christianity, both contemporary and historical, has focused primarily on self-denial, and so has often mishandled and abused not only the concept of self, but the…
If you are unfamiliar with NPR’s Intelligence Squared debates, you are missing out. They gather four excellently qualified people to debate, two against two, propositions…
Here is the lecture I gave at the 2015 Rethinking Hell Conference. It’s about an hour long, but I think it’s worth it. Enjoy.
For those new to the debate over hell, there are three main positions in Christendom: The Traditional View, a.k.a. Eternal Conscious Punishment (ECP), claims that…
The second Rethinking Hell conference just finished, and this year was more fun than last year because I got to present a breakout lecture entitled…
I am thrilled to announce that I will be delivering a paper at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society’s Far West Regional Conference. The…
This post is part of a series. As you may have read in the last article in this series, my traditionalist friend responded with one…
This post is part of a series. Having responded to my friend’s initial list of scriptures, I had hoped to get a detailed response, or…
The posts in this series include: Letters to a Traditionalist On Hell 01 – Eternal Fire Letters to a Traditionalist On Hell 02 – Undying…
This post is part of a series. In Part 1, I began answering objections from my traditionalist friend regarding the Conditional Immortality view of hell…
This post is part of a series I have a good friend who takes the traditional Christian position on hell, that of Eternal Conscious Torment…
I am totally jazzed to be part of the 2015 Rethinking Hell Conference, this year held on the campus of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena,…
A few weeks ago, the excellent British radio show and podcast Unbelievable aired a 30 minute debate (way too short) on the topic of Conditional…
I just published a two part series over at Rethinking Hell. Enjoy. 10 Video Game Depictions of Hell (Part 1) 10 Video Game Depictions of Hell (Part…
Well, if I ever feel short of material to goad me to write, all I have to do is visit the Atheism vs Christianity (no…
In 2014, I attended the inaugural Rethinking Hell Conference, at which John Stackhouse Jr. gave an outrageously fine opening lecture (see more of the lectures…
This post is part of a series. Of the three philosophical arguments marshaled in this series in support of Conditionalism, the argument from proportional, finite justice is…