Afterlife

Death: Sacred, Necessary, Real

Rev. Michael Dowd | Posted 05.30.2012

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Rev. Michael Dowd

Everything we value is possible only because of death. We can no longer afford to remain ignorant of it; the cost is too high. Death is no less sacred than life.

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Do We See People in Persistent Vegetative States As More Dead Than Dead People?

Matthew Hutson | Posted 05.22.2012

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Matthew Hutson

What do we think of people in persistent vegetative states, who can breathe but can't think? Mentally, they are dead, but since we're very aware of the body still lying there, we can't as easily imagine them as active characters in our lives.

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Ghost Encounters of the Uncle Jerry Kind

Mark C. Miller | Posted 04.30.2012

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Mark C. Miller

I've never been one to believe in ghosts. But I swear to you that Uncle Jerry was as real as the three late payments on my TRW credit report. He even still had his life-long lower back pain.

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Hello From the Other Side: Emails, Ghostly Smells and Other Evidence of the Afterlife

Varla Ventura | Posted 05.21.2012

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Varla Ventura

The next morning when I told my mom about my nighttime vision, she burst into tears. My grandpa had died just after midnight, perhaps an hour before he visited me.

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Religion in Novels Is Better Than Religion in Politics!

Dave Astor | Posted 05.09.2012

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Dave Astor

Yes, many novels have religious content that dominates a book or at least adds a small thread to its tapestry. Some of these novels take a jaundiced view of religion, while others treat it more kindly.

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Seeing The Dead

Rev. Peter Baldwin Panagore | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Grief, Death and Dying, Greiving, Faith, Afterlife, Heaven, Loss and Grief, Dealing With Grief, Coping With Death, Christianity, Death & Dying, Religion News
Rev. Peter Baldwin Panagore

Over the years as a community pastor, like most pastors, I attended to death, funerals and grieving in my town. Over the years, many times, the grieving would pull me aside and say, "Preacher, I had this dream..."

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I'm Not Worried About His Soul

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 04.10.2012

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Joan E. Dowlin

A friend who had called him on the phone and vigorously tried to convert him to Jesus so he would not go to hell asked me, "Aren't you worried about his soul?"

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Ask Pastor Paul: Answering Questions About The Afterlife

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 04.08.2012

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Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

Dear Pastor Paul, When I was eight I was taught two things in the same week. The first was that accepting Jesus was the only path to heaven; and the second was that there were a billion people in China who had never heard the name Jesus.

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Why I Want To Believe In Life After Death

Kathy Chang-Lipsenthal | Posted 02.19.2012

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Kathy Chang-Lipsenthal

My husband believed in past lives. Was I true believer? Not really. But after he died, strange things began to happen. Could this really be my late husband having fun from beyond the grave?

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The Courage To Live Eternally

Rev. Dean Snyder | Posted 12.25.2011

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Rev. Dean Snyder

As Christians prepared for All Saints' Day, I want to propose that choosing to believe in life after death may actually be an act of courage.

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You Haven't Lived Until You've Died: Emanuel Swedenborg and "the Afterlife"

Vaishali | Posted 11.16.2011

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Vaishali

We call it "the afterlife". But from everything we know about it, we really should be calling it "the life", and calling what we are experiencing now...

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How Kids Deal With Grief And The Afterlife

Susan McCorkindale | Posted 11.13.2011

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Susan McCorkindale

According to the experts, there are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. We also have -- and I respectfully suggest this as a sixth stage -- Hell.

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A Post-Hell Christianity?

Posted 09.14.2011

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By Kim Lawton Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) For millennia, people have been trying to imagine what happens after death. I...

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How In The World Did Colton Burpo Beat Me To Heaven?

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 08.07.2011

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Clay Farris Naff

Here was I, preparing to astonish the world with my tale of a visit to heaven, and I get beaten to the bestseller list by a tow-headed kid.

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Many Mansions In Whose House?

Bishop Pierre Whalon | Posted 08.06.2011

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Bishop Pierre Whalon

What else do we need to trust God for? If he has prepared a place for us for then, what about now? If we are willing to trust about our death, what about our life now?

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Is Religion Good For You?

Victor Stenger | Posted 08.04.2011

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Victor Stenger

No basis exists for the claim often made by believers that religion is necessary for a person to live a healthy, happy, and moral life. Not only can we be both well and good without God, we can be better.

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Stephen Hawking's Other Insight

Chris Stedman | Posted 07.20.2011

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Chris Stedman

In my mind, the most pivotal moment of Hawking's interview is also the easiest to overlook. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it sentence, Hawking offered an imperative call to action.

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Stephen Hawking's Sin In Denying Heaven

Brad Hirschfield | Posted 07.16.2011

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Brad Hirschfield

That kind of denigration of other people and their beliefs is not only unnecessary, it is precisely the kind of obnoxious behavior that too many religious folk dole out to non-believers.

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Last Gasp: Q&A With Osama bin Laden

John Bobey | Posted 07.11.2011

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John Bobey

Osama... Osama bin Laden -- is that you? Yes, yes it is -- who is this? It's me, John Bobey.

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What Do You Think Happens When We Die?

Judith Johnson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Judith Johnson

We have a culture of silence around dying and death. It's a great taboo that fills most of us with anxiety about life's end without any way to reduce that anxiety. We all know we are going to die, yet we don't talk about it.

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Should Donald Rumsfeld Go To Hell?

Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.

It's tempting to want to believe in hell for Rumsfeld and his ilk, whether we're religious or not. It can be comforting to believe that they will suffer the moral consequences of their behavior.

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The Insider's Guide To Death

Elisa Medhus, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Elisa Medhus, M.D.

From his unique perspective on the "other side," my son has become our "inside man" in the afterlife. In the following channeling session with psychic medium Jamie Butler, Erik shares what death is like.

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Channeling Erik: The Insider's Guide To Death And The Afterlife

Elisa Medhus, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Elisa Medhus, M.D.

As a scientist and physician, I thought I had it all figured out. You live; you die; you're done. My entire paradigm, however, underwent a cataclysmic transformation soon after the death of my son, Erik.

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5 Compelling Reasons To Believe You Won't Die

Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Robert Lanza, M.D.

A long list of scientific experiments suggests our belief in death is based on a false premise, that the world exists independent of us -− the great observer.

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What Happens When You (Almost) Die?

Posted 05.25.2011

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By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Religion News Service Wanda Colie vividly remembers what she saw in 1984 when, at age 28, a condition that produced blood in ...

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