Tag: Heaven
5 things to know about the traditional Christian doctrine of hell
Luca Signorelli, The Damned Cast into Hell, 1499-1504, a,
fresco in Orvieto Cathedral, Italy. Wikimedia Commons
Martyn Iles, managing director of the Australian...
What and where is heaven? The answers are at the heart of the Easter story
Drawing by Wes Mountain
My pious Baptist grandmother once shockingly confessed, at the ripe old age of 93, that she didn’t want to go...
WEEKENDS & HOBBIES & ROAST DINNERS
I was asked a few questions recently by a new friend that really had me thinking. Scrambling for answers actually, and aware of the...
THE DEAD AND THE DYING
The heavy decrepit bodies of the great and not so, mingled with their offsprings, children too young to realise that this too would be...
A WALK IN THE RAIN
He aged within the silences of our stilted conversation. His eyes were those of a man who’d seen his kingdoms fall and the survival...
THIS PRISON HAS NO BARS
From the mansions of sadness
To the bums on the street
From the highways of loneliness
To the halls of defeat
I’ve watched your ascendance
The road I never...