While the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide was an absolute tragedy, a particular element of it became a cultural touchstone of the 1990s: those Nike shoes. During a three-day period of late March 1997, 39 ...

"Upstairs/Downstairs" could describe two very different visions of the afterlife . . . one of which seems particularly frightful in these days before Halloween. Martha Teichner takes us on a tour: The ...

Q: Dear Rabbi Gellman, Catholicism holds “animals have mortal souls that perish when the body dies;” therefore, animal souls ...

When our son was 4 years old, he asked my wife and me: "Can you drive to heaven?" Out of the mouth of babes, right? It’s a question only a child would ask, but it raises a very adult question: Where ...

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