We hope you enjoy this very special episode.Įven though the Burpo family has been on a wild ride for the past few years, they still live their life as “normally” as possible. This week we have chosen to share with you a replay of one of our all-time most popular episodes of the Impact Podcast - a conversation with the wonderful and inspiring Colton Burpo, author of “Heaven is for Real.” Colton apparently has loving parents and his community see him as special despite this, worry lines are already appearing on the boy's face.With all that the world has been going through over the last couple of years, it is always good to hear and share stories of hope.

Colton Burpo's Visit to Heaven (update) A video interview of Colton Burpo aged 14 and his family.'The Spirited Atheist' Susan Jacoby on Heaven is for Real and other related books (and there are quite a few).Ī movie version of the book has been produced. Mercifully, at least someone, namely Susan 'Spirited Atheist' Jacoby of The Washington Post, has taken these people to task for their ridiculous naivete. Naturally, when they're told that a four-year-old claims to have seen things in Heaven he couldn't possibly have known about, by the boy's father who's a highly knowledgeable pastor who stands to make quite a bit of money from of the publicity regarding this story, the standard reaction among the target audience of gullible evangelical Christians was to unquestioningly accept everything the book said. It is unclear how much of the book's content is directly from Colton, as opposed to input from people subsequently involved in the project, including his father and the book's co-writer, Lynn Vincent, a noted conservative writer and author of Sarah Palin's book Going Rouge Rogue. Ī great deal of what Colton described emerged through questioning by his parents over two years. He also saw his great-grandfather and a sister who had been miscarried. The book tells the story of Burpo's son Colton, who claims to have visited Heaven during a near-death experience at the age of four.Ĭolton claims that he was carried into Heaven by an angel, where he saw Jesus wearing a white robe with a purple sash and riding a rainbow horse. Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back is a giant r/thathappened post best-selling book by Christian pastor Todd Burpo, co-written with 'co-author' Lynn Vincent.

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