The End of Dispensationalism
by Joel LooperHummel reminds us, “Christianity is inescapably eschatological.” That is so because faith cannot exist without hope. Continue Reading »
Apocalypse Now?
by Peter J. LeithartThe main thing exposed by any apocalypse is the state of the heart. Continue Reading »
Things Fall Apart
by Peter J. LeithartThe Book of Revelation sheds light on the distorted Christian inspiration behind globalism. Continue Reading »
Prepping for an Amish Apocalypse
by K. E. ColombiniModern civilization has largely lost touch with the natural world and its practical arts; perhaps this is why we create so many apocalypse stories. Continue Reading »
On Blood Moons and Babylonian Whores
by Brandon D. SmithApproaching Revelation as a prediction of imminent catastrophe is far from how John intended his audience to understand his vision. Continue Reading »
The Dishonest Capitulation of Michael Gerson
by Mark BauerleinGerson calls Decius’s attitudes “prejudice,” the condition of “a certain kind of right-wing nationalist.” Isn't it fun for a conservative, for once, to be able to talk like this! Isn't it great that conservatives can play identity politics, too? Continue Reading »
Cryogenic Monks
by Richard T. WhittingtonDon DeLillo's novels suggest that the fundamental yearning that underlies all action, the creation and the destruction of civilizations, is the yearning to escape personal mortality. But the feats of modern science have tempted some to believe that science can defy human mortality altogether. Continue Reading »
Stephen King’s American Apocalypse
by Ross DouthatThe result, across King’s body of work, is a vision of contemporary America as a spiritual realm that is out of joint and up for grabs, thick with competing forces and watched over by an Almighty whose goals are inscrutable, whose demands are peremptory, and whose methods are sometimes cruel. . . . . Continue Reading »
Liturgy
by William HeyenWe kept building our steeples higher until emissions streamed to thousands of miles away, but distant lakes spit up frogspawn & . . . . Continue Reading »
Middle East Apocalypse Now?
by Peter J. LeithartSaddam Hussein’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait may have thrown the world economy into confusion, but it has revived one flagging and undeniably American industry: dispensationalist pop-apocalyptic. Largely under the influence of former steamboat captain Hal Lindsey, a large sector of American . . . . Continue Reading »
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