{"id":2038,"date":"2016-03-27T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:34:22","slug":"rev-james-martin-sj-what-easter-teaches-us-about-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2038","title":{"rendered":"Rev. James Martin SJ: &#8220;What Easter teaches us about heaven&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/span>: See Father Martin&#8217;s video below, from America Media.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>James Martin (among other things) is a big contributor to the Jesuit magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/americamagazine.org\/\">America<\/a>. He&#8217;s a very interesting guy, who graduated from U Penn&#8217;s Wharton School of Business &#8211; one of the premier business school&#8217;s in the country (Donald Trump also a graduate of Wharton).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this on CNN&#8217;s website and is worth the five minutes it takes to read.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/03\/24\/opinions\/easter-heaven-lessons\/index.html\">Believing in the afterlife is a significant problem even for some devout believers. In my experience, it&#8217;s one of the most common fears in the whole Christian life.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pLu9Wl0Q8Jo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: See Father Martin&#8217;s video below, from America Media. James Martin (among other things) is a big contributor to the Jesuit magazine, America. He&#8217;s a very interesting guy, who graduated from U Penn&#8217;s Wharton School of Business &#8211; one of the premier business school&#8217;s in the country (Donald Trump also a graduate of Wharton). Anyway, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8062,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/8062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}