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HELL: Something Good About Hell, by Jon M. Sweeney
From Almost Catholic Here at least We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition,...
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MYSTICISM: Proverbs Of Hell, by William Blake
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. * Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead. * The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. * Prudence is a rich, ugly old...
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SATURDAY READING: What Happens In Hell, by Charles Baxter
From Ploughshares “Sir, I am wondering – have you considered lately what happens in Hell?” No, I hadn’t, but I liked that lately. We were on our way from the San Francisco Airport to Palo Alto, and...
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SERMON: Heaven And Hell — It Is a Matter of the Heart, by C. S. Song
From And Their Eyes Are Opened On that day, when evening had come, he [Jesus] said to them, “Let us go across to the other side. And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just...
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DIABOLOGY: Encounter With Evil, by Malcolm Godwin
From Angels: An Endangered Species We now turn to what are claimed to be first-hand accounts of meetings with the enemy. During the five centuries after Christ many Christian hermits and monks...
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POETRY: Hell, by Thomas Ken
When, go ye, cursed, God proclaims, And sinners plunge in endless flames, Think, O my soul, what mighty pain, The damned sustain. Self-rage for breach of gracious laws, The worm of conscience which...
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POETRY: A Letter, by Wendell Berry
(to Ed McClanahan) Dear Ed, I dreamed that you and I were sent to Hell. The place we went to was not fiery or cold, was not Dante’s Hell or Milton’s, but was, even so, as true a Hell as any. It was a...
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POETRY: A Purification by Wendell Berry
At start of spring I open a trench in the ground. I put into it the winter’s accumulation of paper, pages I do not want to read again, useless words, fragments, errors. And I put into it the contents...
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HEALING: Perfect Hell
I am not obsessive-compulsive. I have actually been tested. The same test, however, showed that I am a perfectionist. When I saw how high on the scale of perfectionism I tested, I felt an urge to sit...
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When, go ye, cursed, God proclaims, And sinners plunge in endless flames, Think, O my soul, what mighty pain, The damned sustain. Self-rage for breach of gracious laws, The worm of conscience which...
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