Introducing… My Online Reading Group For a while now I’ve been developing a project that I’m finding to be really fun. It is an online reading group on topics in Church history and theology. I pick a subject (with input from the members) and one or more relevant cool texts from the history of Christianity. […]
A Better Way to Think About Heaven, via St. Gregory of Nyssa
Christians in our culture have a pretty odd default view of life after death. We call it “heaven” and tell the world they ought to make sure they get to go there, but we portray it as frankly boring. You know the schtick: sitting forever on a cloud holding a harp you don’t know how to play. […]