One night when she was eight years old, Roberta Grimes woke up and knew for certain that there is no God. And she was terrified! Then a bright light flashed, and a voice said, “You wouldn’t know what it is to have me unless you knew what it is to be without me. I will never leave you again.” She thought, That’s nice. If you forget there is a God, they remind you. And she went back to sleep. She went on to graduate from Smith College and Boston University School of Law, but that experience of light remained with her.

She had to know where that light had come from! So even as she pursued a career as a small-business attorney, married and reared a family, Roberta spent more than half a century researching what actually happens at and after death as a compulsive hobby. The result has been her present highly enjoyable part-time career as a podcaster and afterlife and Gospels lecturer, and also as the author of seven nonfiction books, including The Fun of Dying and Liberating Jesus.

Please enjoy my conversation with Roberta Grimes.