Of the various responses to Rob Bell’s Love Wins, two struck me as particularly important. On one side, a number of prominent conservatives opted for splenetic denunciation. For Bell to extol God’s ...

In a First Things combox discussion about Catholics who become Baptists, Terry Mattingly asks: On your second point: Is it safe to say that the post-Vatican II Church is functionally Universalist?

The teaching of universalism is one which has divided Christian thinkers since the days of Clement of Alexandria and Origen. The subject has been raised in recent years with new force, so that it ...

He’s not the first to try to resolve old biblical tensions in new ways. If your God is perfect and all powerful and loving, then why does he not give everyone on this earth a fair chance to know him ...

When they are in fashion, fads are never recognized as fads. Those under their influence and promoting them feel that they have come across An Important New Truth, or (if Orthodox) An Important But ...

The Rev. Patricia (Pat) Ray will present 'Unitarian Universalism: Salvation to Damnation?" at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2487 A1A South. Unitarian Universalists are ...