hell Archives – Thomas Froese

A hope in hell

Leave a Comment / Christian Courier, Newspaper columns / October 12, 2015 / 2015, Christianity, free choice, hell, Jesus Christ, Jesus in hell, spirituality / 3 minutes of reading

(Christian Courier, October 12, 2015)

MUKONO, UGANDA ✦ They’re out there, people who’d say that they don’t believe in hell any more than they believe in heaven, but you can never be sure what anyone really thinks about these sorts of questions because you can hardly expect anyone to be honest with you when they don’t know how to be honest with themselves.

Your neighbour might say that it’s nothing but malarkey – heaven, hell, God, the devil, the entire lot of it (this is the 21st century, after all) – but he’d tell you that he doesn’t believe in gravity, yet his disbelief doesn’t run so deep that he’d actually step off a tall building.

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Dear Mr. Millard – Letter 2 – Have you seen the road to hell?

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / April 15, 2014 / 2014, a father's influence, death of parents, Dellen Millard, Dellen Millard accused serial killer, father-son relationships, hell, memories of parents, The Road to Perdition, Tim Bosma / 6 minutes of reading

My relationship with my own father has mellowed much over the years. This is what marriage and children and grandchildren and an ocean of separation can do. (I think you know I live in Africa most of the year, the genesis of which is for another conversation at another time.) But there was a time

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So we’re at the dinner table talking about hell

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / January 17, 2014 / 2014, around the table, hell, our Ugandan home, Satan, The New Testament / 4 minutes of reading

I don’t know how we get on these enlightening talks at the dinner table, but the other day we – the kids and Mom and I – got onto hell. Yes, hell, home of Satan. You know, Satan, the entity who prowls around the earth looking to wreak one sort of havoc or another. (Not

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The Kenyan terror attack, hell, and sharing with the kids

2 Comments / Daily Dad / September 24, 2013 / 2013, al-Shabaab, fear, hell, Kenya terror attack, Kenyan Westgate Mall massacre, Nairobi Westgate Mall attack, our Ugandan home, shopping, terrorism / 4 minutes of reading

We are children, all of us, not entirely at home in this world because in a deep place, maybe a forgotten place, we realize there is something else, something more. Which is why crimes against children are especially heinous: they’re an attack on the very nature of innocence. They’re also a reminder of how, in the

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The Light of the World in the darkness of hell

1 Comment / Newspaper columns, The Standard / March 25, 2013 / 2013, Christianity, Easter, hell, Jesus Christ, Jesus in hell, Jesus' humanity, spirituality, suffering, violence / 3 minutes of reading

(The UCU Standard – Friday, November 1, 2013)

MUKONO, UGANDA ✦ Suicide is a shabby and shameful business, something that nice people don’t get mixed up in, yet here they are, two suicides in our university family, two young people who in separate incidents have left us with nothing but a disturbing ‘good-bye.’

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