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The World Turned Upside Down: Finding the Gospel in Stranger Things is unavailable, but you can change that!

What could the supernatural world of Stranger Things have in common with the Bible? The paranormal television series Stranger Things taps into the mysterious elements that have fueled spiritual questions for millennia. The otherworldly manifestations in Hawkins, Indiana offer compelling portrayals of important spiritual truths—and many of these truths are echoed in the supernatural worldview of...

of an animate, spiritual world with the terrestrial human reality transcends what you would typically hear in church. When Bible scholars talk about the gospel, it’s usually in a dialect of academese. We like to spell out what the gospel is and isn’t propositionally. We point out that the Greek term translated “gospel” (euangelion) means “good news.” The “good news” refers to how Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection are the basis for the forgiveness of our
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