Augustine’s Apocalypse—and Our Own
by Peter J. LeithartAugustine is a guide to facing crises, some real, some imagined, with firm confidence. Continue Reading »
The End of Dispensationalism
by Joel LooperHummel reminds us, “Christianity is inescapably eschatological.” That is so because faith cannot exist without hope. Continue Reading »
A Protestant Apocalypse?
by Carl R. TruemanI wonder whether we might see something even more significant than a second wave of COVID-19: a second ecclesiastical apocalypse. 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 »
To Uproot or To Plant
by Dale M. CoulterChristianity lives in the tension between its apocalyptic vision of life and its creational mandate to occupy. The former pushes Christians to uproot and pull down the orders of society while the latter draws them back toward the earth and roots them in the orders of creation.
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 »
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