Are Christians wrong in their thinking about heaven? Is it all clouds, singing and endless reminiscing? Bishop N.T. Wright doesn't seem to think so and I have to strongly agree. The general Christian perception of heaven seems to be shaped by culture and not Scripture.

Wright quotes a children's book by California first lady Maria Shriver called What's Heaven, which describes it as "a beautiful place where you can sit on soft clouds and talk... If you're good throughout your life, then you get to go [there]... When your life is finished here on earth, God sends angels down to take you heaven to be with him." That, says Wright is a good example of "what not to say." The Biblical truth, he continues, "is very, very different."