Heaven

A while back I wrote a post about The Good Place, a comedy about four people in the afterlife.  I promised in that post to write a follow-up on the widespread belief that heaven will be boring.  Spoiler alert: the characters in The Good Place come to that conclusion...

Living Happily Under God’s Authority

The Christian God is a God who claims authority over our lives.  That’s an unattractive way to start a post, isn’t it? (I will propose that God’s authority brings beauty at the end of this piece!) But really, we see his authority from the opening chapters of the...

The Good Place

Bill and I just finished watching The Good Place, all four seasons.  It is a comedy about four humans who die and go to the good place, or so they are told when they arrive.  One of them, Eleanor Shellstrop, immediately realizes that she did not deserve to be there,...

“He Gets Us”

Bill and I subscribed to Peacock in February, so that we could watch the Olympics and the Super Bowl.  One by-product of watching both is getting to see the commercials.  I always notice the commercials about Jesus, with the tag line “He Gets Us.”  All of the ones I...

Imagine Heaven!

I just finished reading Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God’s Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You, by John Burke.  Although I read a variety of different types of books and perspectives, this is not a book I would have chosen for myself.  I...