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Pastor Rob Bell: What If Hell Doesn't Exist?

By Jon Meacham — 2011

Rogue pastor Rob Bell's argument about salvation and judgment has Evangelicals in a fury — and a young generation rethinking Jesus

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What is hell?

The recent dispute over whether Pope Francis denied the existence of hell in an interview attracted wide attention.

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Joanne M. Pierce
2021
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For Black LGBTQ Christians, Storytelling Is a Tool of Resilience

Black LGBTQ people are finding ways to share their stories and their spirituality, bridging a gap between faith and identity. The effort is leading some of them back to church, where acceptance is growing.

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Lindsey McGinnis
2022
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18 Major World Religions — Study Starters

Religion is so diverse and nuanced a subject that it’s nearly impossible to encapsulate all of the world’s major religions in just a few words. But we’re going to try anyway. This is an entry point for understanding the basics of the world’s major religions.

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TheBestSchools
2021
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Seeing with Mystic Vision

Today we remember and honor one of the great mystics of the Church, Hildegard of Bingen. Mystics are those who have been gifted with an extraordinary ability to see. They often see and perceive things others do not or cannot see.

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Br. David Vryhof
2013
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What Jesus Means to Me as a Muslim

As the Christmas season ushers forth the memory of Jesus, it’s worth asking: How much do Muslims think about the person the Quran recognizes as a prophet and the Messiah?

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Omar Suleiman
2020
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The Bible Without Jesus? How Two Faiths Can Read the Same Text in Dissonant Ways

Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler parse opposing interpretations Jews and Christians have of the same Bible, and make the argument that religion doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game

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Rich Tenorio
2020
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If Jesus Never Called Himself God, How Did He Become One?

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. When my guest Bart Ehrman was a young, evangelical Christian, he wanted to know how God became a man. But now as an agnostic and historian of early Christianity, he wants to know how a man became God.

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Terry Gross, Bart Ehrman
2014
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What Did Jesus Do?

Reading and unreading the Gospels.

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Adam Gopnik
2010
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Was Jesus Gay? Probably.

I preached on Good Friday that Jesus’s intimacy with John suggested he was gay as I felt deeply it had to be addressed.

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Paul Oestreicher
2021
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The Forgotten Radicalism of Jesus Christ

First-century Christians weren’t prepared for what a truly inclusive figure he was, and what was true then is still true today.

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Peter Wehner
2020
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