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Why I say kaddish for my father
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 1, 2024
(RNS) — The annual search for my father's grave reveals the meaning of immortality.
As organized religion falters, the devil falls on hard times
By Bob Smietana — July 27, 2023
(RNS) — As faith in God fails, so does belief in the devil. And that may have consequences.
‘Rabbi, what happens after I die?’
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 23, 2023
(RNS) — If you never learned this in religious school, then (in Brooklynese) 'you was robbed.'
Author Lee Strobel, after brush with death, explores ‘Case for Heaven’ in film
By Adelle M. Banks — March 31, 2022
(RNS) — ‘The topic of what does indeed happen after we leave this world is more relevant to a lot of people today than it was a couple of years ago,’ Strobel said.
Millennial morality lends ‘The Good Place’ its theology — and popularity
By Tara Isabella Burton — October 2, 2019
(RNS) — Eleanor and her fellow millennials on CBS' afterlife sitcom would rather change the rules for getting into heaven than submit to traditions that don't fit their best selves.
‘A Dog’s Journey’ brings Bruce Cameron’s Bailey back to life — and back again
By Paul O'Donnell — May 17, 2019
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — 'A Dog’s Journey' plumbs dark topics, including domestic abuse, alcohol abuse and child abandonment as a route to portray redemption and forgiveness.
I want to die like George H.W. Bush
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 3, 2018
Welcome to heaven, President Bush.
When the Good Place gets too good for comfort
By Cathleen Falsani — October 9, 2018
(RNS) — While the 'Forever' universe appears to be nontheistic or at least agnostic, there is a kind of secular dogma that runs through it. Think of it as a theology of comfort.
A funeral director says many churches (unknowingly) promote a ‘death negative’ narrative
By Jonathan Merritt — November 10, 2017
Caleb Wilde says many churches teach that "death, and our mortality, is at heart both shameful and has little to no redeeming value."
Hungry Ghost Month animates the streets of Singapore
By Alexandra Radu — September 9, 2017
SINGAPORE (RNS) — For Buddhists and Taoists during the seventh month of the lunar year, the line between the realms of the living and dead blurs.
On God and heaven, Americans are all over the map
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 28, 2016
(RNS) A new study suggests Americans as a whole hold seemingly incompatible beliefs on the nature of God and heaven.
3 new September shows with religion subplots
By Brandon Ambrosino — September 13, 2016
(RNS) 'The Exorcist, 'The Good Place' and 'This Is Us' have something in common.
Billy Graham warns of fire and brimstone in ‘final’ book
By Adelle M. Banks — October 2, 2015
(RNS) Experts say his words are a significant shift from the approach he took after the first decade of his ministry.
‘I did not die. I did not go to heaven,’ teen says in admitting his book was fiction
By Jocelyn McClurg — January 16, 2015
The publisher said it will withdraw the 2010 best-seller "The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven" now that author Alex Malarkey says invented those chats with angels.
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.
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