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April 02, 2014
NRA: Jaime’s in Hell
We’re sad because we don’t want Jaime to be in Hell. He was a good...
March 2014
March 05, 2014
NRA: Feathering the throttle
As Chapter 11 ends, readers are treated to two pages of driving instructions followed by...
February 2014
February 25, 2014
NRA: Escape from the land of persecution
The bigger problem here is Michael's contention that "the witnesses predicted in the Scriptures" will...
February 21, 2014
Announcing the Left Behind cover and title contest
I'm doing some cutting and pasting and -- ugh -- Microsoft Word formatting, and I...
February 14, 2014
NRA: Getting strong now
Prayer sessions seem to be these books' version of the training montage in 1980s movies....
February 11, 2014
‘The Missing Christians’: Why are Rapture stories always so dull?
The 1952 Rapture movie "The Missing Christians" is bad. You probably guessed that, but you...
January 2014
January 24, 2014
NRA: Counting on a miracle (2)
The miracle-or-bust approach of reckless heroes with no plans doesn't necessarily make for a bad...
January 10, 2014
NRA: Counting on a miracle
Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist; pp. 209-214 The tale of Buck and Tsion's thrilling escape...
December 2013
December 13, 2013
NRA: Pulpit ‘humility’
Jerry Jenkins seems dimly aware that he can't portray his author-surrogate Buck Williams as too...
December 06, 2013
NRA: Cringe with those who cringe
"Ask the others to join us for prayer," Tsion says to Buck, and the reader's...
November 2013
November 22, 2013
NRA: Tsion and them that mourn
This is series of books in which, in the first chapter of Book 1, everyone...
November 15, 2013
NRA: Israeli checkpoints
Tim LaHaye's ignorance about Israel does not come from innocence or naivete -- from simply...
October 2013
October 25, 2013
NRA: Anywhere I lay my head
In Luke's Gospel, Jesus says, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests;...
October 19, 2013
Les survivants de l’Apocalypse
This is the literary mash-up I'd like to see: "Left Behind" and "The Plague." Give...
October 18, 2013
NRA: Atlas shunned
This redrawing of the map of the Middle East creates a bit of a problem...
October 11, 2013
NRA: Escape to Antichrist, an anti-Semitic adventure story
There's a Birth-of-the-Nation aspect to this adventure story here in "Nicolae." Unlike Jerry Jenkins, D.W....
October 04, 2013
NRA: Someone wrote this. And someone else published this.
Buck was sent up the river by Moses and Elijah to look for Tsion Ben-Judah....
September 2013
September 27, 2013
NRA: Twenty Questions … with murder!
Buck Williams is sailing up the Jordan River under cover of night, when suddenly the...
September 13, 2013
NRA: Roll, Jordan, roll
We could say more about this extravagantly awful scene in Nicolae. We could talk about...
September 06, 2013
NRA: Your young men shall receive phone calls
But this is how God communicates with Buck in this chapter because this is how...
August 2013
August 30, 2013
NRA: In the house of the Lord forever
Here in Nicolae, for the authors, the presence of the Temple is meaningless except as...
August 23, 2013
NRA: Walking in the spirit
Buck Williams isn't warned by God in a dream. He's warned by God in a...
August 16, 2013
NRA: The antichrist power
It's bonkers. But Hattie and Rayford are nonchalantly behaving as though it's not. The authors...
August 09, 2013
NRA: What Would Rayford Do? (Do the opposite)
Broadly speaking, we expect good characters to have good motives and evil characters to have...
July 2013
July 26, 2013
NRA: The imminent Rapture is not imminent
These books are fictional, but they're meant to provide a fictionalized description of future events...
July 19, 2013
NRA: The Restaurant at the End of the World
In this scene, Jerry Jenkins achieves a vivid, palpable realism. The effect is brief, but...
July 05, 2013
NRA: Moses and ELIZA
I sympathize with Buck a bit here. He's just trying to get a straight answer,...
June 2013
June 21, 2013
NRA: Nudge, nudge, wink, wink
They've just described a scene in which the entire population of the world witnesses a...
June 15, 2013
NRA: A lesson for the ladies
But then it hit me. Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins haven't forgotten about their women...
May 2013
May 31, 2013
NRA: Bored with Plank
Remember Steve Plank? He used to be Buck Williams' best friend -- his only friend....
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