Earlier this week, LifeWay Christian Resources announced it would no longer carry “experiential testimonies about heaven,” such as Don Piper’s popular “90 Minutes in Heaven.” Books and films in this vein report people’s various brushes with the afterlife (usually heaven, but sometimes hell) experienced during traumatic moments like surgery or car wrecks.
The LifeWay move follows a 2014 Southern Baptist Convention resolution that criticized this recent spate of “books and movies purporting to explain or describe the afterlife experience.” (LifeWay serves as the media wing of the SBC.)
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