Readers amused or bemused by the radio preacher Harold Camping’s predictions that the world will go pear-shaped tomorrow may want to read Meghan Duke’s amusing and insightful Save the Date . She reviews some previous failed predictions, as well as the more widely respected secular versions, and then explains what Christians actually believe about this.
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