Until the COVID-19 pandemic, it had been decades since I'd thought much about the afterlife. As a kid, I was fascinated with stories by people who claimed to have received visions of Mary. My maternal ...

Heaven and hell — are they real places, or are they fantasies invented to inspire good behavior and overcome our fear of dying? In my book "Heaven and Hell Unveiled," I share what 30 years of research ...

Give my best to your mother and tell her that my mother, who lives in Milwaukee, Wis., also has no computer. The difference is, she never wants to ask me questions about heaven and hell. She mainly ...

Somehow I missed it. The “it” I’m referring to is a quote attributed to Pope Francis that, in essence, denied the existence of Hell. The article I came across was at least five years old, and the ...

Death has intrigued humans for many centuries. What exists beyond the boundaries of the material realm? Is it void, reincarnation, or everlasting bliss? Indian texts, abundant in spiritual knowledge ...

People often ask if Judaism has a concept of Heaven and Hell. While there are certainly Jewish theologies regarding the afterlife, we typically don’t emphasize the hereafter. That said …. I recently ...

A24’s fantasy film Eternity is primarily a romance. When 90-something woman Joan (WandaVision star Elizabeth Olsen) dies, she arrives in a bright, busy, bureaucratic afterlife called The Junction, ...

Stephen Hawking, diagnosed with a motor neuron disease early in life, defied expectations to become a renowned cosmologist.