Dolly Parton's Life of Faith

Dolly Parton's life of faith

(OSV News) — The nearly 1,000 songs Dolly Parton recorded during her long career covered a wide range of topics. She not only dealt with the humiliation of poverty, harassment in a dead-end job and romantic rivalry, she also felt at home with such explicitly Christian numbers as 1989’s “He’s Alive” and “There Was Jesus,” released 30 years later. In fact, Parton — who died at 80 from cancer on Aug. 25 at her home in Nashville, Tennessee — spent a…

What Dolly Parton Believed About the Afterlife, Heaven and Eternity - Charisma Magazine Online

In the wake of Dolly Parton’s death, the country music legend’s own words about faith, growing older and what she believed awaited her after this life have taken on new significance. Parton, who died Aug. 25 at 80, never shied away from discussing the Christian faith planted in her during her childhood in the mountains of East Tennessee. Although she acknowledged that she did not have all the answers about eternity, she repeatedly expressed hope…

Dolly Parton’s life of faith

Dolly Parton -- who died at 80 from cancer on Aug. 25 at her home in Nashville, Tennessee -- spent a lifetime comfortably steeped in biblical teaching.