Hell is talked about cautiously, if at all, in mainline churches. Yet the notion of a divinely ordained place of punishment for the wicked after death is deeply embedded in the Christian imagination.

The Italian newspaper La Repubblica got the world thinking about hell on Thursday after publishing an interview with Pope Francis in which he appeared to suggest that hell does not exist. The Vatican ...

He descended into Hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into Heaven. In unequivocal terms, the traditional Apostles’ Creed sums up one of the central mysteries of Christianity: ...

Heather, the chair of medieval history at King's College London, is the author of Christendom: The Triumph of Religion, AD 300-1300 For the first millennium of Christianity’s existence, western ...

c. 2012 Religion News Service ATHENS, Ala. (RNS) Black and white. Heaven and hell. Right and wrong. Blur or question those lines, and, well, all hell can break out. At least it did for Edward Fudge in ...

What pop culture’s afterlife obsession tells us about ourselves. Ever since humans started telling stories about life, they have also told stories about life after life. We show an unquenchable ...

The Cambridge Dictionary describes “hell” as: "in some religions, the place where some people are believed to go after death to be punished forever for the bad things they have done during their lives ...

Why soldiers crave the extremes of active duty. Combat veterans have a love-hate relationship with war. They love the sense of purpose that they had during deployment; they hate the senseless evil ...