Review: Church Conflicts
In "Church Conflicts: The Cross, Apocalyptic, and Political Resistance," noted New Testament scholar Ernst Käsemann explores the significance of Christian apocalyptic for the church in times of crisis.
‘Is This When We Disappear?’ Rapture Triggers Haunt the Left Behind Generation
For some, fear-saturated stories about the rapture can generate lifelong panic, paranoia, and anxiety.
Review: Second Thoughts About the Second Coming
Jeremy Fuzy reviews "Second Thoughts about the Second Coming: Understanding the End Times, Our Future, and Christian Hope" by Ronald J. Allen and Robert D. Cornwall. This book explores the apocalypse from a mainline Protestant perspective.
Thomas Lecaque on Apocalyptic Religion & Political Violence
In episode 62 of Dangerous Dogma, Thomas Lecaque, professor of history at Grand View University, talks about alarming issues of religious and political support for violence. He also discusses the importance of studying history.
Texting the Apocalypse
In this edition of A Public Witness, we read the texts of messianic and apocalyptic ideas animating parts of the Trumpian movement. Then we take advantage of your unlimited data to warn about the danger of half-baked religious prophecies masked as partisan politics.
Review: Tradition and Apocalypse
Robert D. Cornwall reviews Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief by David Bentley Hart. He argues that the book challenges our certainties and pushes our buttons, but with the war in Ukraine raising the profile of Orthodoxy it is helpful
Christ the King Sunday Blues
Contributing writer Rodney Kennedy writes that he is not sure churches in America should be celebrating Christ the King Sunday. Have our habits become too corrupt – Americanized, individualized, freedom-soaked – for us to obey a king?
History Repeats Itself: From the New Testament to QAnon
A revisionist reading of reality, in which social and political events are only understood by a chosen few, is the basis of the QAnon gospel. Yet, it is also a worldview driven by long-standing religious impulses clearly evident to historians of early Christianity.
Trump has Changed the Way Evangelical Christians Think About the Apocalypse
If COVID-19 is a true sign of the end times, then Trump can’t be the hero evangelical Christians think he is. Read full piece
Donald Trump: The End-Times President
How fundamentalist Christians who believe in the apocalyptic myth of “the rapture” could be shaping Trump’s agenda — and American life. Read full piece
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