Randy Kirk just celebrated his blog's first anniversary and thus considers it his prerogative to "tag" me with a question and compel me to answer! He wants to know what five questions I will ask Jesus when I meet him in Heaven, so here goes:
1. What am I supposed to do now that I'm in Heaven?
2. Do I have less free will now than I did when I was on earth?
3. Did I have more free will than God himself, who can't sin, or is that just semantics?
4. Am I still married to Jessica, and if not, can I still hang out with her?
5. Will you autograph my Bible?
As for tagging others... how about Francis W. Porretto, Jay McCarthy, Donald Sensing, Orson Scott Card, and Eugene Volokh.
"Am I still married to Jessica, and if not, can I still hang out with her?"
If there's an afterlife, I do hope men and women go to the same Heaven. I don't think it would be Heaven otherwise. Some people might have the exact opposite opinion, though. Hmmm, "how to make a Heaven that everyone likes" is probably a non-trivial problem.
"Do I have less free will now than I did when I was on earth?"
Right now you are able to make decisions based on what you want, and on your model of how the world works and of how one gets what they want. I assume this is what you call "free will" (even though it may be an algorithmic, deterministic process). Why and how could this ability decrease once you're in Heaven? Any thinking/computing entity has this ability inherently. Once in Heaven, I would imagine your ability to do things will change (maybe you can do some things you can't on earth, maybe you can no longer do some things you could on earth) and your awareness of things will change (your model of how people work and how to get what you want will probably be more refined), but fundamentally, the ability to turn "I want this to happen" into "Out of the things I could do, the best one is X" can't increase or decrease... Unless I'm either misunderstanding you or missing something (which I might very well be).
Now, Michael... you know Jesus said that in heaven, people neither marry nor are given in marriage.
I would imagine our relationships to people that we know now (and will meet then) will evolve to a higher sense of consciousness, one that's not limited to flesh. We will perceive and relate to others in a way that's completely beyond our comprehension now. But yes, I hope that when my time comes I will be able to recognize my wife and children and parents, etc.