About a year ago, Pope Francis was purported to comfort a child on the death of his pet by saying that animals go to heaven. While the report may be apocryphal (and may or may not actually have been attributed to Pope Paul VI), the survival of animals’ souls after death is a persistent question, […]
Welcome to my website and blog! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Valerie A. Abrahamsen, a Harvard-trained New Testament scholar, and I’ll be writing generally about three topics – words of wisdom, as it were, from the Past, the Present and the Future. Among my primary principles is that I do not […]
These are posts on topics related to the afterlife, the survival of the soul after death, and how afterlife research helps answer life’s difficult questions, primarily taken from my 2015 evidence-based book, Paranormal: A New Testament Scholar Looks at the Afterlife. Past Events: Reading, Rockingham Free Public Library, Bellows Falls, VT, Tuesday, September 17, 2019. Small but […]
My profile for Westar Institute (home of the Jesus Seminar) Review, Ally Kateusz, Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), in The Fourth R, Westar Institute, in progress Article: “Titus and Other Jesus Missionaries on Crete: Encountering the Legacy of the Goddess,” The Independent Scholar, Vol. 10 (December 2023) 64-78. Article: […]
Welcome to Wisdom Words — Past, Present, and Future. Blog posts are scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of the month at 6:00 am Eastern Time. Thank you for being an engaged citizen with intellectual curiosity! Indexes to past posts: October 2015 to October 2016, October 2016 to October 2017, October 2017 to October […]