Recent publishing history is replete with books that elevate heaven on the bestseller lists. 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper (Revell, 2005) was one of the first, with more than 5 million copies sold ...

What inspired you to write Heaven? About a year after 9/11, I wrote a Newsweek cover story on heaven. It was triggered by this idea: In a suicide bombing, everyone thinks they’re going to heaven. The ...

J. Edward Wright, professor of Judaic studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who has written extensively about heaven, said that dating to the second century Jews believed in an afterlife ...

What happens after death? Is there an afterlife? J.K Rowling wrote in her book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone that “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” Is there ...

Dr. Eben Alexander generated much curiosity about the existence of the afterlife in his bestselling book “Proof of Heaven.” He is now expanding that account by connecting science, religion, and ...

Bart D Ehrman’s latest work of popular scholarship is boldly subtitled A History of the Afterlife, but it is a history in only the most rudimentary sense. An unsatisfying read, Heaven and Hell is more ...

Faith and superstition have long been partners in humanity’s intellectual test kitchen, and nothing they have concocted is as varied, colorful, and addictive as our last course: the afterlife. Bart D.