In this episode of The Tentative Apologist Podcast I break with my usual practice of an interview / conversation. Instead, I’m featuring a talk I delivered at the OnWord Conference at Steele Heights Baptist Church in Edmonton, AB on September 28, 2013 titled “Does Heaven Need a Makeover?” In this talk I argue that common objections to heaven […]
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What hath zombies to do with theology? An interview with Clay Morgan
In this interview I sit down with culture savvy monster aficionado Clay Morgan. Clay is a professor, blogger, podcaster, and author of the book Undead: Revived, Resuscitated, Reborn (Abingdon Press, 2012). You can visit Clay online at http://claywrites.com/ * * * RR: Clay, thanks for joining us. When I first saw the title of your […]
Proof of Heaven? Not so much.
Eben Alexander, M.D., Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012. Since its publication in October 2012 Proof of Heaven has sold over two million copies in English alone. Consider as an example of its success the fact that it has amassed over five thousand reviews at Amazon.com in […]
Near-Death Experiences Ripe for Philosophical Reflection (by Steve Miller)
This is a guest post by J. Steve Miller, author of Near Death Experiences as Evidence for the Existence of God and Heaven. In this paper Steve provides a very helpful overview of the current state of NDE research and the need for further philosophical reflection on it. My thanks to Steve for his willingness to […]
Would a heaven that never ended end up being hell?
I just received word yesterday that my book on heaven will be published by Baker in the fall of 2013. In honor of that good news I thought I’d focus for a couple days on some philosophical topics with respect to heaven. But where to begin? We read in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: “The primary topics […]
The Confessions of an Ouranophobe, or How I got over my fear of heaven
A couple months ago I blogged on the notion of a fear of heaven. What follows below is a much longer discussion of the same topic. It is an autobiographical excerpt which I originally wrote for a book I am currently writing on the concept of heaven. Once I decided that the passage would not be included in the book, […]
What on earth happened to Colton Burpo? A Discussion of “Heaven is for Real”
Tomorrow morning (November 19) I’ll be speaking from 9 AM – 12 PM at McKernan Baptist Church in Edmonton on the question “What on Earth Happened to Colton Burpo?” If you are asking yourself “Who is Colton Burpo?” I have to wonder where you’ve been. The book Heaven is For Real (Thomas Nelson, 2010) was […]
