Most Westerners are at least vaguely familiar with the popular Christian version of Heaven: pearly gates, streets of gold, winged angels and the Righteous, with their bodies made perfect and immortal, ...

The Heaven and Hell Symposium packed the Garden Court in the Wilkinson Center on Thursday night, Oct. 15. Representatives from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Islamic faith, the ...

Different cultural groups, and different individuals within them, respond with numerous, often conflicting, answers to questions about life after death. For many, these questions are rooted in the ...

In September, the Pew Research Center dug into the views adults in the United States hold on theodicy (why do bad things happen to good people?), as well as their views on the reality of heaven and ...

What pop culture’s afterlife obsession tells us about ourselves. Ever since humans started telling stories about life, they have also told stories about life after life. We show an unquenchable ...

Hell is talked about cautiously, if at all, in mainline churches. Yet the notion of a divinely ordained place of punishment for the wicked after death is deeply embedded in the Christian imagination.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Are non-Christians bound for the gates of hell? The topic has generated ...

Why soldiers crave the extremes of active duty. Combat veterans have a love-hate relationship with war. They love the sense of purpose that they had during deployment; they hate the senseless evil ...