The movie “Heaven is for Real” is getting rave reviews for its portrayal of one boy’s near-death experience and the stories he relays to his parents about the heaven he saw when he was between life and death.
My first conscious memory of pondering an afterlife came at the death of my profoundly disabled, brain damaged older brother. He died at 13 years old, slipping away one winter night from pneumonia.
While speaking at the kickoff of the United Nation's "Free and Equal" campaign to promote gay rights worldwide, retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 81, raised more than a few eyebrows when he said he would rather go to hell than a "homophobic heaven" or serve a "homophobic God," the UK Daily Mail reported last Saturday.