prophecy

Much ink, physical and virtual (including on this site), has been spilt discussing, making light of, or just plain despairing over the modern American obsession with the “end times”. An obsession American evangelical Christianity seems intent on infecting the rest of the world with.

Even if one discards the recent theology or paradigm of dispensationalism, it’s still easy to get hung up on, well the end of all things.

Whether or not the issue is even applicable to Christians can boil down into another one of those interesting divides of what we believe versus what we say we believe. One of the most profound experiences for me of the past year is coming to grips with the implications of things I had supposedly professed all my life. Continue reading...

For those who don’t sift through the storied history of apocalyptic fiction like Left Behind, the name Hal Lindsey might not mean much. He’s an important guy, though — in the 1970s, he wrote a relatively influential book entitled The Late Great Planet Earth that laid out his vision for a grim post-Christian future. It was a critical bridge between old-school rapture-watching movements like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the post-hippie Jesus Movement that was starting to transition into broader American culture. Continue reading...