Hell & Heaven
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The Heaven Ethic (Heaven Part 4)
The Bible’s cosmology can be weird and hard to believe. What is there for us if we can’t get excited about ruling over angels? Nate and Tim wrestle with this question, discussing the profound and practical strategy that Paul and the…
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Bodies for Both Worlds (Heaven Part 3)
This is where things start to get weird. Nate and Tim look at the Bible’s strange hope that humanity would one day come to rule not only on earth but over the gods in the heavens. And to Paul, for that…
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Heaven as a Revolution (Heaven Part 2)
God will one day lead a revolution to overturn the power structures of the world. The biblical writers call this “heaven.” Those at the bottom will be put at the top and vice versa, and it may have nothing to do…
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I’ll fly away, old glory (Heaven Part 1)
Did you used to picture flying away to be in heaven? Or, maybe you’ve thought of new creation as what heaven is. After spending 3 episodes talking about hell, Nate & Tim work to complicate the conception of heaven, in keeping…
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Who the hell knows (Hell Part 3)
If there is no consensus on a singular notion of Hell, then how the hell ought we to think and feel about all this? In Part 3, Nate and Tim further examine the complexity and inconsistency in the so-called “Biblical worldview”…
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To hell with hell (Hell Part 2)
Where did “hell” come from? What is Sheol? Hades? Gehenna? And who goes to these places (or are they are even places?) We’ll see how our idea of Hell is actually an amalgam of various concepts related to multiple different questions.
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Scared to Death (Hell Part 1)
Many of us are terrified of Hell, but should we be? Is Christianity supposed to ease our anxieties around death or exasperate them? And is Hell really about torture? We ditch the Bible and traditional ideas for a bit to try…