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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. None of us likes thinking about death, but there are times when we have little choice. The virus spreads, hospitals fill, and ...

(RNS) — Best known for his popular books debunking the central assumptions of Christian Scriptures, the New Testament scholar continues this quest in his latest book, ‘Heaven and Hell: A History of ...

I have a friend who claims that the Bible says everyone will eventually go to heaven, and that hell doesn’t exist. This isn’t what I was taught as a boy in Sunday school, but is this what the Bible ...

Converting to Catholicism was like being wooed. It was like a courtship, and I fell in love. Among other delights during that courtship, I especially enjoyed learning about (and committing to memory) ...

Pew’s afterlife survey also asks 6,500 people about universalism, reincarnation, fate, answered prayer, and interacting with the dead. Many American evangelicals love C. S. Lewis’s writings yet balk ...

Do heaven and hell exist? Want God’s truth? No one knows. As Tennyson said, “Nothing worth proving can be proved, nor yet disproven.” Brother Jack was an exception to the Tennyson doctrine. He was one ...

It’s natural for people to want things to turn out well in the end, both in life and, apparently, afterwards. Roughly seven-in-ten (72%) Americans say they believe in heaven — defined as a place ...

He descended into Hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into Heaven. In unequivocal terms, the traditional Apostles’ Creed sums up one of the central mysteries of Christianity: ...