An open letter to President Trump about heaven.

October 15, 2025.

Dear Mr. President, greetings in the Lord, thank you for your service to our country.

As I've noted the various comments you have made about heaven, I felt

burdened to write to you. I decided on an open letter, and there are two reasons that can give for

this. In the first place, you've been very open about your questions. This has been a matter of

public discussion, and so I don't feel it is out of place to address them in this way. Second,

you are our president, and in this role,

you are in many ways our representative. I believe there are many Americans who have exactly the

same questions that you do. As I write to you, I'm writing also to them. And to these reasons,

I might also tag on a third, which is that approaching the task this way stands a better

chance of actually getting to you, which is actually the point.

I write because I am a minister of the kingdom of heaven, and when I hear someone talking about heaven, as you've been doing,

the only thing that comes to my mind is how I might possibly set out the message of Christ to you in a way that fits.

How might I faithfully address the questions that you've been

raising about this issue? We should want to do more than just insert the buckle into the seatbelt.

We also need to hear the click. So here's the situation. At one point, you hope that the work you

had done for peace in Ukraine might count for something when it came to getting into heaven.

Someone apparently talked to you about that,

and so later on you said that you were probably low on the totem pole when it came to heaven.

And then just recently you expressed doubt about making it there at all. So the first thing I would

want to start with is a commendation. All of this is good. The fact that this is on your mind is a

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