“Imagine There’s No Heaven, No Hell Below Us”

“I believe that Yahweh will end evil and violence without condemning anyone to eternal torment ... that God will usher in Beloved Community on a verdant restored earth that looks a whole lot like this one, with flowers and animals and mountain streams with cold, clean water...communities of trees and elephants, and people who laugh and sing and listen. I don’t know how or when God will end evil and restore Earth, and I don’t think we need to know. Our vocation as followers of Jesus is to live into Beloved Community here and now until God restores creation. It just might look like the Kindom of God, a New Earth...with no hell below us, above us only sky.”

Meditation by The Rev. Tonya Barnette, preacher

Sunday, November 16, 2025