{"id":318,"date":"2010-08-02T14:34:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T14:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/08\/who-goes-to-heaven.html"},"modified":"2010-08-02T14:34:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T14:34:30","slug":"who-goes-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/08\/who-goes-to-heaven.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Goes to Heaven?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/speakingoffaith.publicradio.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Krista Tippett<\/a>, host of &#8220;Speaking of Faith&#8221; has an article (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article.lasso?id=8602\" target=\"_blank\">My Grandfather&#8217;s Faith<\/a>&#8220;) in this month&#8217;s Christian Century. She writes, &#8220;For whether or not Muslims will go to heaven remains a real question in Southern Baptist belief and many other forms of Christianity. But in a place just as doctrinaire, compassion for the stranger, the outcast, the other is a command. The one is a question to be held, in the knowledge that its meaning will not be unlocked in this lifetime. The other is a command to be lived, breathed, and embodied right now.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yes. What she said.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krista Tippett, host of &#8220;Speaking of Faith&#8221; has an article (&#8220;My Grandfather&#8217;s Faith&#8220;) in this month&#8217;s Christian Century. She writes, &#8220;For whether or not Muslims will go to heaven remains a real question in Southern Baptist belief and many other forms of Christianity. But in a place just as doctrinaire, compassion for the stranger, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who Goes to Heaven? - Thin Places<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/08\/who-goes-to-heaven.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who Goes to Heaven? - Thin Places\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Krista Tippett, host of &#8220;Speaking of Faith&#8221; has an article (&#8220;My Grandfather&#8217;s Faith&#8220;) in this month&#8217;s Christian Century. 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