In part 1 of this final installment on The Good Place I focused on the roots of the reasons why we do good things. I challenged that too often our motivations to live a good life are rooted in our fear of going to Hell, or our desire to be safe in Heaven instead of simply living Godly lives for… Read more →

For the last installment of this blog series I want to touch on why it is we do good, or why we try to be good, but I’ve got a lot of reflections on this and how the show touches on it as well so it’s going to be a two-parter.   Every religion I can think of is predicated… Read more →

What does The Good Place allude to about Purgatory?   This is fun topic for me to kick around theologically, though I’m not really sure why. Maybe it’s because there’s just so many questions about the afterlife, even for Christians, and such a history of a middle ground or waiting place in the Church’s history that it creates a lot… Read more →

  I want to open this blog with a question to think about before putting any of my own thoughts down.   What does it say that Eleanor, while believing she’s in the Good Place, is fundamentally changed by the fact that there is a Good Place? Give it a good long think about what you make of this and… Read more →

First of all, I’d like to know what you thought of the service Sunday night and the idea of us talking to The Good Place. Are you a fan of the show? Have you watched but not a fan? I would also like to know what some of your answers to the questions were – either those Lea asked in… Read more →