When my siblings and I were very young and incorrigibly misbehaving, my mother, as a last-ditch effort to get us to listen, would occasionally pick up the rotary phone and inform us that she was ...

Envisioning hell as a dungeon of fire with Satan dancing around seems too bizarre, impossible and ungodly, to many men and women. “After all,” many people think, “why would a loving God create such a ...

The first layer of Dante’s hell is limbo whose residents are virtuous souls who lived before Christianity, including thinkers like Homer and Ovid. They are subject to eternal separation from God. In ...