You ever sing the kid’s song “Heaven is a wonderful place?”
We used to sing it at camp: Heaven… is… a wonderful place. Filled… with… glory and grace.
True, of course. Presumably heaven IS a wonderful place filled with glory and grace. But I doubt it’s a “cloudy,” “happy,” place with favorite flavors of ice cream and lots of tiramisu. There are such amazingly unbiblical conceptions of heaven “out there” that it’s hard to get many people to think past kittens, butterflies, choirs, and and cherubic angels with feathery wings.
Which is why I’m TOTALLY looking forward to NT Wright’s new book Surprised by Hope. I haven’t read it yet (don’t even have it yet) but it sounds great. If you’re interested, there’s a short interview with the brilliant bishop over on Time’s website:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710844,00.html?imw=Y
Enjoy!
Grace and Peace,
`tim
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