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What and where is heaven? The answers are at the heart of the Easter story

  • Written by Robyn J. Whitaker, Senior Lecturer in New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity
What and where is heaven? The answers are at the heart of the Easter storyWes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

This is the second in a two-part series on heaven and hell by Bible scholar Robyn Whitaker. You can read her piece on hell here.

My pious Baptist grandmother once shockingly confessed, at the ripe old age of 93, that she didn’t want to go to heaven. “Why,” we asked? “Well, I think it...

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