When someone says “It’s all gone to Hell in a handbasket,” what they mean is that everything is utterly and irredeemably ruined. But why Hell? And why a handbasket, of all things? Going to hell is a ...

One of the earliest saints to receive a firsthand glimpse into the heavenly realm was St. John the Evangelist. In the Book of Revelation he described the heavenly Jerusalem coming with “the glory of ...

This is the first in a two-part series on heaven and hell by Bible scholar Robyn Whitaker. You can read her piece on heaven here. “This is hell” we might proclaim, midway through a boot camp session ...

In March 1992, Matthew Botsford walked out of a restaurant in Atlanta and found himself in the middle of a gun battle. He was struck in the back of the head with a 9mm bullet. Before he knew it, he ...

The idea of visiting hell—or at least the gateway to hell—might not appeal to everybody, but for the devilishly-curious there are a number of places across the planet that are supposedly entrances to ...

When I was a kid of ten or eleven years old, newly returned to New York after a few years living in Chicago, I started accompanying my mother to a church in Harlem, in a shallow, sunlit upper room ...