Left Behind

We’re sad because we don’t want Jaime to be in Hell. He was a good...

As Chapter 11 ends, readers are treated to two pages of driving instructions followed by...

The bigger problem here is Michael's contention that "the witnesses predicted in the Scriptures" will...

I'm doing some cutting and pasting and -- ugh -- Microsoft Word formatting, and I...

Prayer sessions seem to be these books' version of the training montage in 1980s movies....

The 1952 Rapture movie "The Missing Christians" is bad. You probably guessed that, but you...

The miracle-or-bust approach of reckless heroes with no plans doesn't necessarily make for a bad...

Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist; pp. 209-214 The tale of Buck and Tsion's thrilling escape...

Jerry Jenkins seems dimly aware that he can't portray his author-surrogate Buck Williams as too...

"Ask the others to join us for prayer," Tsion says to Buck, and the reader's...

This is series of books in which, in the first chapter of Book 1, everyone...

Tim LaHaye's ignorance about Israel does not come from innocence or naivete -- from simply...

In Luke's Gospel, Jesus says, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests;...

This is the literary mash-up I'd like to see: "Left Behind" and "The Plague." Give...

This redrawing of the map of the Middle East creates a bit of a problem...

There's a Birth-of-the-Nation aspect to this adventure story here in "Nicolae." Unlike Jerry Jenkins, D.W....

Buck was sent up the river by Moses and Elijah to look for Tsion Ben-Judah....

Buck Williams is sailing up the Jordan River under cover of night, when suddenly the...

We could say more about this extravagantly awful scene in Nicolae. We could talk about...

But this is how God communicates with Buck in this chapter because this is how...

Here in Nicolae, for the authors, the presence of the Temple is meaningless except as...

Buck Williams isn't warned by God in a dream. He's warned by God in a...

It's bonkers. But Hattie and Rayford are nonchalantly behaving as though it's not. The authors...

Broadly speaking, we expect good characters to have good motives and evil characters to have...

These books are fictional, but they're meant to provide a fictionalized description of future events...

In this scene, Jerry Jenkins achieves a vivid, palpable realism. The effect is brief, but...

I sympathize with Buck a bit here. He's just trying to get a straight answer,...

They've just described a scene in which the entire population of the world witnesses a...

But then it hit me. Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins haven't forgotten about their women...

Remember Steve Plank? He used to be Buck Williams' best friend -- his only friend....