The “horizon” he points to isn’t a doorway to the divine, other scientists say. Yet, modern physics has been trying to answer questions once left to religion.

Neither Jesus, nor the Hebrew Bible he interpreted, endorsed the view that departed souls go to paradise or everlasting pain.

When our son was 4 years old, he asked my wife and me: "Can you drive to heaven?" Out of the mouth of babes, right? It’s a question only a child would ask, but it raises a very adult question: Where ...