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Article: Presences: A Bishop's Life in the City.
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- March 13, 1998
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An Episcopal bishop who is a family friend always had a funny quip to allay my fears when I was growing up. On the question of life after death, he used to say it was foolish to worry about the furniture in heaven or the temperature in hell. Paul Moore, the retired Episcopal bishop of New York, takes that thought a bit further - some say too far - in the epilogue of his appealing autobiography. Moore theorizes that if heaven and hell exist, they are the same place. The sheer presence of God, he explains, would be heaven or hell, depending on the sins of the beholder. Refreshingly frank about his own sins and shortcomings, Moore says he'll take his chances on God's mercy if ...
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