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CW: Hello, I’m Cynthia Winward.
SH: And I’m Susan Hinckley.
CW: And this is At Last She Said It. We are women of faith discussing complicated things, and the title of today’s episode is “What About Heaven?” So why are we having an episode called “What About Heaven?” Susan?
SH: I don’t know. I wonder if any of our listeners are wondering about that, or if they’re like, “Of course, about time you guys got around to talking about this.” I don’t know.
CW: Maybe.
SH: Yeah. It feels kind of like a no-brainer to me. Okay. Well, that’s a good place, that’s a good way in, actually, because just for grins, when I sat down to work on the notes for this episode, I asked Google which Christian denomination focuses most on heaven. I did not want the answer that I got, Cynthia.
Do not ask a question to which you do not want to know the answer.
CW: Uh oh.
SH: Oh. Here you go. This means that my hunch, the thing behind the question, was actually right. It said, “Most mainstream Christian denominations share a foundational belief in heaven as the ultimate eternal destination for believers, meaning no single traditional group holds a monopoly on the concept.
However, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stands out for having a uniquely elaborate, tiered, structural focus on heaven divided into distinct celestial, terrestrial, and telestial kingdoms.”
