“Heaven” Articles

Hope, love, joy, and peace are ours in grappling with the realities of death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

Ancient Egyptians were deeply involved in questions of the afterlife: God did indeed set eternity in the hearts of all humanity across the ages. 

Why doesn’t the Good Place satisfy? It doesn’t satisfy because it’s an eternity of people getting literally anything they want—anything they can ask for or dream of or do—for the rest of all time.

D. L. Mayfield recaps the season 3 finale of The Good Place, “Pandemonium.”

What if we resisted dehumanization as our first goal in life, as a way to reflect glory on the one who created us?

We are defined not just by who we are, but by who we are in relationship to one another.

D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “The Worst Possible Use of Free Will.”

Why do we do the things we do, and what end do our lives serve?

D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “A Fractured Inheritance.”

My immediate thought after watching “The Brainy Bunch” is that The Good Place is starting to feel a little too normal.

D. L. Mayfield recaps the season three premiere of The Good Place, “Everything Is Bonzer!”

The Good Place is an exercise in thinking through how we relate to each other as neighbors and what responsibility we take toward intervening in a broken world.

The Christian worldview explains why cases like this are so challenging and why they should turn our minds toward our great hope to come, where the depravity of a fallen world will no longer taint our lives.

“Born To Run was in my CD player on my wedding day, so now I can’t listen to “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out” without thinking nostalgically about putting on my suit and taking pre-wedding photos with my bride-to-be. In my memory, my wedding day was perfect.”