Heaven & Hell Archives

Paul Kengor interviews Gary Smith about Smith's new book, Heaven in the American Imagination.

Current controversies raise this issue anew among American Christians and even among some evangelicals. Nevertheless, there is no way to deny the...

The doctrine of hell has recently come under vicious attack, both from secularists and even from some evangelicals. In Part One, we considered how...

We read the Apostles’ Creed very casually, especially when it comes to this statement: "He descended into hell." Because we read it so casually, it...