Twenty years ago, on March 24 and 25, 1997, 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult went to a rented house in an upscale San Diego suburb and took their own lives in an attempt to board a UFO they ...

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 ...

To mark the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin last week, Pope Benedict gave a homily at Castel Gandolfo reflecting on the dogma of the Assumption (the idea that the Virgin Mary was bodily taken up ...

Clay Tweel's four-part HBO Max docuseries explores the Heaven's Gate cult beyond the 'Star Trek' obsession, cheap website and matching Nikes in 'Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults.' By Daniel Fienberg ...

A little more than two weeks after 39 bodies were discovered in a Rancho Santa Fe, California, mansion in 1997, the dead were being mocked on Saturday Night Live. Will Ferrell played Marshall ...

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 ...

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In the Kabbalistic system of Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi the third Heaven, defined by the triad Nezah-Hod-Yesod, is named Shehakim which means Skies… In its purely Heavenly aspect, the third Heaven is ...