Thoughts from a Family Drive

I seem to remember that the conversation sparked from the idea of going out in a blaze of glory in Grand Theft Auto would possibly lead to the Valkyries taking the character away

Book Announcement!

I'm super excited to announce that I've just self-published a little book on Amazon! Have a look here!

Hell in the New Testament

Having covered the Old Testament and the Gospels, it's high time we finish this series on Hell off with a look at what the rest of the New Testament has to say about it. The shocking truth is: not a lot.

Hell in Matthew

Having covered the remarkably few mentions of Hell in the other Gospels, we now turn our attention to the book of Matthew. In stark contrast to the other Gospels, Matthew seems absolutely chock full of Hell. This, in itself, raises an issue: if an understanding of Hell is so important, and Jesus's mission on Earth …

Hell: Overview and Old Testament

Here I introduce the idea of Hell I will be dealing with and to look at how the subject was treated in the Old Testament.

Hell? No.

Fear of Hell tortures multitudes of people. From the devout, to the deconverting, to the nominal believer, to the completely unreligious who still have some little flicker of fear in the back of their minds, the threat of eternal, conscious, fiery torment hangs over people's hearts and minds. If I can unpick and unpack this threat in order to expose it as false, unfounded, and untenable, perhaps I can help to alleviate those fears and bring peace to those afraid to take the next step away from their abusive relationship with faith.

Where I Am in the Journey

Not a single episode, not a short season, but a long process of unravelling that puts me where I am now. It's not that I have been on a journey; I am still on that journey.

But I’m Still Not an Atheist

Disbelieving the God of the Bible and those other faiths does not mean that I believe in the utter absence of anything transcendent, higher, other, unexplainable, or above our current understanding.

Walking the Black Dog

For those of you who aren't familiar with the expression, the black dog is an old euphemism for anxiety and melancholy. I find myself taking a walk with this old, unwelcome, friend quite a bit in recent days.

Ghosts and Jesus

The difficulty with all of this is that this mild fascination with all things gently spooky coincided with my conversion to evangelical Christianity. Suddenly there was a whole bunch of stuff I wasn't supposed to be interested in because it was "dark."