The Life Beyond

The Life Beyond

I updated my will last week. To my friends, don’t worry; I’m not planning on going anywhere anytime soon. To my enemies, sorry about getting your hopes up. And to Missy, you can’t quite start hosting the Good Faith Weekly podcast by yourself, no matter how much...

Salvation’s About Much More Than Going to Heaven

Some Christians have a narrow understanding of salvation that makes it all about the afterlife (going to heaven). They think they know who has it and who doesn’t, who’s in and who’s out, and they consider the work of the church to be largely about...

More Questions, Fewer Answers, on the Afterlife

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) For millennia, people have been trying to imagine what happens after death. Is there an afterlife, a heaven? Who gets in? And what happens to those who don’t? Books trying to provide answers to these age-old questions continue to be...

Two-thirds of Americans Say Bin Laden’s in Hell

(RNS) While Americans have debated whether Osama bin Laden’s body belongs at the bottom of the Arabian Sea, most agree on the final destination of his soul: in hell. A new poll released Wednesday (May 11) reports that most Americans (82 percent) believe bin Laden...