“The traditional views of heaven and hell are about 95% mythology,” says Notre Dame’s Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie. Except among some fundamentalists, ...

Many of my secular friends are confounded. How could Jesus-loving people support a bill so harsh and regressive? "What ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” reshaped English literature.

St. John Bosco on Heaven. St. John Bosco, known as Don Bosco, wrote of his vision of heaven on Dec. 6, 1876. He said that “all was blue as the calmest sea, though what I saw was not water …” ...

He looks not only at our tales of heaven and hell, but at tales of the undead (vampires and zombies), of death’s denizens (angels, demons, and the Devil), and of purgatory.

The oft-cliched Christian notion of heaven — a blissful realm of harp-strumming angels — has remained a fixture of the faith for centuries. Even as arguments go on as to who will or won't be ...

“Journeys to Heaven and Hell” by Bart D. Ehrman, a highly respected New Testament scholar, tells some of the different notions various nations and people had about the afterlife in ancient times.

Heaven kidnapped Aziraphale and Hell kidnapped Crowley shortly after the pair stopped Armageddon. Both faced the ultimate punishment. Despite claiming to be on the side of good, Heaven’s highest ...

C.S. Lewis revolutionized the images of heaven and hell in 1945 with his novel “The Great Divorce.” Instead of hell being a torturous, blazing inferno, it was a drab and ...

Between Heaven and Hell is a good, hard-hitting action film, replete with the usual heroics but also full with the ugly realization that the men who fought World War II were far from perfect. The ...