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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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What is hell, exactly? We might joke it's other people, but the Bible has a more complicated answer

  • Written by: Robyn J. Whitaker, Senior Lecturer in New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity
What is hell, exactly? We might joke it's other people, but the Bible has a more complicated answerHell is a complicated idea- and most Christians do not believe it has anything to do with fire and brimstone.Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

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


“This is hell” we might proclaim, midway through a boot camp...

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In Abdul-Rahman Abdullah's Pretty Beach, a fever of stingrays becomes a meditation on suffering

  • Written by: Ted Snell, Professor, Chief Cultural Officer, Cultural Precinct, University of Western Australia
In Abdul-Rahman Abdullah's Pretty Beach, a fever of stingrays becomes a meditation on sufferingAbdul-Rahman Abdullah, Pretty Beach, 2019, installation view, The National 2019: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, painted wood, silver plate ball chain, crystals, audio, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.© the artist, photograph: Jacquie Manning.

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Going to the beach this Easter? Here are four ways we're not being properly protected from jellyfish

  • Written by: Lynda Crowley-Cyr, Associae Professsor of Law, University of Southern Queensland
Going to the beach this Easter? Here are four ways we're not being properly protected from jellyfishThousands of Queensland beachgoers have been stung by bluebottle jellyfish in recent monthsShutterstock

The Easter long weekend marks the last opportunity this year for many Australians to go to the beach as the weather cools down. And for some, particularly in Queensland, it means dodging bluebottle tentacles on the sand.

In just over a month this...

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  2. how we value the fruits of our labour over instant gratification
  3. Climate change is hitting hard across New Zealand, official report finds
  4. Joko Widodo looks set to win the Indonesia election. Now, the real power struggle begins
  5. How long would garden snails live if they were not eaten by another animal?
  6. The myth of 'the Queensland voter', Australia's trust deficit, and the path to Indigenous recognition
  7. New Zealand’s urban freshwater is improving, but a major report reveals huge gaps in our knowledge
  8. Paris? Melbourne? Public housing doesn't just look the same, it's part of the challenges refugees face
  9. How old ideas about tolerance can help us live more peacefully today
  10. New study finds family violence is often poorly understood in faith communities
  11. We can't predict how bad this year's flu season will be but here's what we know so far
  12. We scanned one of our closest cousins, the coelacanth, to learn how its brain grows
  13. a new Australian romantic comedy with a sincere sense of place
  14. Constructively tough? Neither side has committed to fully adopting perhaps the most important recommendation of the banking royal commission
  15. Homeschooled students often get better test results and have more degrees than their peers
  16. Tips to reduce your waste this Easter (but don't worry, you can still eat chocolate)
  17. Māori loanwords in NZ English are less about meaning, more about identity
  18. Those tax cuts should follow proper process, officials tell government
  19. what is Candida auris and who is at risk?
  20. New research reveals how young Australians will decide who gets their vote
  21. Traditional owners still stand in Adani's way
  22. Radical Inventor is a tribute to living, breathing works of art
  23. Pacific island cities call for a rethink of climate resilience for the most vulnerable
  24. How fake news gets into our minds, and what you can do to resist it
  25. priorities for the next government
  26. Election campaign lesson #1: don't mess with Medicare
  27. No matter who wins the election, many Australians think real leadership will be lacking
  28. Electric cars can clean up the mining industry – here's how
  29. Three things Australia's next education minister must prioritise to improve schools
  30. Were journalists 'just doing their job' in the political resignation of Metiria Turei?
  31. Why would rational voters believe talk of hundreds of billions and 10-year timeframes?
  32. Why are we so moved by the plight of the Notre Dame?
  33. Don't despair about Notre Dame
  34. Why climate change will dull autumn leaf displays
  35. Reshaping Sydney by design – few know about the mandatory competitions, but we all see the results
  36. Is Jokowi 'religious enough' for conservative voters?
  37. Farms create lots of data, but farmers don't control where it ends up and who can use it
  38. can caffeine improve your exercise performance?
  39. Labor and Coalition proposals side by side
  40. Three years in, is the AFLW kicking goals?
  41. an online dilly bag for keeping Indigenous digital archives safe
  42. why do eggs have a yolk?
  43. politicians actually do keep their promises
  44. Here's why electric cars have plenty of grunt, oomph and torque
  45. High-dose, immune-boosting or four-strain? A guide to flu vaccines for over-65s
  46. an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates
  47. Homeschooled children are far more socially engaged than you might think
  48. There's no 'garbage patch' in the Southern Indian Ocean, so where does all the rubbish go?
  49. Memories. In 1961 Labor promised to boost the deficit to fight unemployment. The promise won
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