That Karl and Jimmy, once friends, now adversaries, swerved from honor to horror is just one of the thousands of things "Heaven" at Yale Repertory in New Haven is about.
The worlds in question could be a number of things — heaven and hell, peace and war, past and present; but in a film this vivid and this oblique, the cumulative thrust of the images is what pulls us through.
As Paul taught the Ephesians, God's ultimate will and plan is "to unite all things in him [Christ], things in heaven and things on earth" (chapter 1, verse 10).
Paul is probably quoting one of those early Christian hymns in his epistle to the Philippians (2 10-11): "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth.
Gregory's interpretations of ("And when all things shall be subdued unto him ... ......) and ("That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth") support this understanding of his theology.
Meanwhile, on "For the Kids," the gentlest release of Mr. Rich's career, he croons about how "the nearest thing to heaven is a child".
The strange thing about Heaven's Gate is that it was no good at either strategy....This was a cult that insisted on exclusivity.
We turned smartly into Topshop and descended into what, to me, a shopaphobic, are the three levels of hell and to him seems to be the closest thing to heaven.
And the closest thing to heaven evoked in this book is a California kitchen: "A large, airy, open room that smelled like wild yeast and raspberries," with "glasses filled with herbs and flowers" and "big wooden barrels of homemade vinegar... under a counter that was heaped high with vegetables".
