I’ve got a new article up on the IVP blog! Bev and I have enjoyed watching The Good Place but the finale rang rather hollow for us. Also it’s depiction of the afterlife touches on a common trope of Heaven turning out to be boring – I unpack why the Biblical vision of Heaven will be anything but…

Please excuse a few moments of speculation, but we need our imaginations for eternity expanded. Perhaps in the New Creation, redeemed humanity will come together to create works of worship that will take the lifetimes to rehearse and the rise and fall of mountains to perform. Maybe we will spend a billion years exploring and filling the galaxy to the glory of God, and another aeon to teach all the stars in the sky to sing his glory. The “tension” that gives life its tang will not be between good and evil, but striving – without guaranteed success – for ever greater and higher degrees of beauty in celebration of God’s glory.

Read more: The Boring Place? What The Good Place misses about Heaven