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Before pronouncing Fido in heaven, let’s consider human creatures
By Jacob Lupfer — December 22, 2014
(RNS) — It is at the supermarket, not the pearly gates, where we grapple with pressing ethical and theological dilemmas about nonhuman animals.
Sorry, Fido. Pope Francis did NOT say our pets are going to heaven
By David Gibson — December 12, 2014
(RNS) The New York Times was the biggest of several outlets relating an apocryphal tale about pets, paradise, and Pope Francis. Here's how, and why, it happened.
Does purgatory have a prayer with Protestants?
By David Gibson — October 29, 2014
(RNS) A reworked version of purgatory is something that has intrigued some Protestants, and it seems to have won over more than a few.
Southern Baptists oppose gender reassignment
By Adelle M. Banks — June 10, 2014
BALTIMORE (RNS) Southern Baptists voted to affirm "God’s good design" that gender is set by biology, "not by one’s self-perception.”
‘Heaven Is for Real’ — and for everyone in new film
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — April 18, 2014
"Heaven Is for Real" rings all the bells of popular attitudes in social surveys, but conservative Christians are dismayed.
T.D. Jakes: ‘Heaven’ movie reflects ‘growing wonder’ about afterlife
By Adelle M. Banks — April 17, 2014
(RNS) "The notion of heaven captures people’s imagination regardless of their religious predisposition," said Bishop T.D. Jakes, a producer of the new film "Heaven is for Real."
Mormons counter ‘cartoonish’ idea of planets in the afterlife
By Adelle M. Banks — March 4, 2014
(RNS) Just as heaven is often depicted as people sitting on clouds strumming harps, “Latter-day Saints’ doctrine of exaltation is often similarly reduced in media to a cartoonish image of people receiving their own planets,” the statement says.
ANALYSIS: Pope Francis’ outreach to atheists not as controversial as it seems
By David Gibson — September 12, 2013
(RNS) Worried observers could have mistaken Pope Francis' pastoral gesture to atheists as an effort to dilute the gospel rather than what he really intended -- an evangelical outreach intended to bring nonbelievers closer to Christ.
Wives find renewed faith after husbands ‘visit’ heaven
By Corrie Mitchell — August 5, 2013
(RNS) The wives of men who claim to have visited heaven in a near-death experience are now telling their side of the story. And for the spouses, life changes nearly as much as it did for the men they nearly lost.
Mother searches for God’s purpose in the midst of grief
By Tim Townsend — July 11, 2013
ST. LOUIS (RNS) After losing her husband and two sons in a hiking accident, Sarah Decareaux says God ``wants to use us for a purpose. I don't know why he would do that to us, to serve some purpose, but I know there is one.'' Now she's trying to figure out what it is.
Activists rally to bury the bodies from Gosnell abortion trial
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — June 7, 2013
(RNS) A spokeswoman for the Philadelphia district attorney said several people have called and tweeted requests for the bodies of babies killed by abortion provider Kermit Gosnell, but the ultimate decision will come from the medical examiner’s office.
Poll: U.S. Muslims more moderate than Muslims worldwide
By Omar Sacirbey — April 30, 2013
(RNS) Muslims in America are much less inclined to support suicide bombing than Muslims abroad, and are more likely to believe that people of other faiths can attain eternal life in heaven, according to a new survey.
Publishers are in seventh heaven with near-death memoirs
By Craig Wilson — January 24, 2013
(RNS) Heaven is hot -- just ask any bookseller in America. Folks have been going to heaven with amazing regularity lately. They look around then come back to report on the trip. For publishers, it's a lucrative journey.
N.T. Wright asks: Have we gotten heaven all wrong?
By John Murawski — May 16, 2012
(RNS) Christian apologist N.T. Wright's insistence that Christianity has got it all wrong seems to mark a turning point for the serious rethinking of heaven. He's not another academic iconoclast debunking Christian myths, but rather takes his creeds very seriously. By John Murawski.
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