Sign of the Day

Last updated on: May 20, 2011 at 11:42 pm By James F. McGrath

Quotes and Song of the Day

Last updated on: May 20, 2011 at 11:05 pm By James F. McGrath

Over at the blog’s new home on Patheos, I’ve shared a great automated reply message I received from Nick Norelli, as well as a quote from Charles Schultz and some other links, plus a song that you may want to add to your end-of-the-world soundtrack. Read more

From Revelation to Genesis

Last updated on: May 20, 2011 at 10:29 pm By James F. McGrath

Different people have different choices when it comes to music for the apocalypse. The song I’ve chosen to share for the occasion (it is already May 21st in some parts of the world) is “Undertow” by the band Genesis, because of the appropriateness of some of the lyrics. Read more

Automated Reply of the Day

Last updated on: May 20, 2011 at 10:20 pm By James F. McGrath

I sent an e-mail to fellow blogger Nick Norelli and received the following back as an automated response: I will be out of the earth until forever. The rapture has occurred and if you have received this message you missed it. Sucks to be you. If this were authentic, it would mean that Harold Camping was wrong, since it isn’t 6pm in Tonga yet. But I shared it because it was funny, not because I thought it was authentic. On... Read more

Taken Up (or should I say “Raptured”?) by the Washington Post

Last updated on: May 20, 2011 at 8:11 pm By James F. McGrath

My recent piece on the Rapture has been picked up by the Washington Post. Read more

Apocalyptic Battle of the Harolds

Last updated on: May 20, 2011 at 5:45 pm By James F. McGrath

Fox News made a wise choice in talking to New Testament scholar Harold Attridge about the end-of-the-world hype being spread by Harold Camping. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the video to embed (you can watch it here). But if even after watching it you are still concerned that the world may end, you presumably won’t want the end to come without having seen Darth Vader play the trombone and Salsa dance… Read more

Apocalyptic Battle of the Harolds

Last updated on: May 20, 2011 at 5:43 pm By James F. McGrath

Harold Attridge vs. Harold Camping: Click here for something else you’ll want to see before the world ends… Read more

Rapture Round Up

Last updated on: May 20, 2011 at 3:46 pm By James F. McGrath

I’ve posted a round-up of some Rapture-related blogging over at Patheos. Read more

Rapture ‘Round the Blogosphere

Last updated on: May 20, 2011 at 3:41 pm By James F. McGrath

There are so many posts about Harold Camping and his (latest) prediction, and about Rapture prediction in general, around the blogs that I read, that I feel like I ought to link to some of them. Rachel Held Evans blogs about the Great Disappointment, as does Marc Cortez. Scott Bailey posts about the piece in the New York Times about family strife created in families as a result of Camping’s prediction. He also offers Rapture pranks, a flow chart, and a... Read more

Review of Thomas McCall, Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism?

Last updated on: May 20, 2011 at 2:56 pm By James F. McGrath

I have posted my review of Thomas H. McCall’s book Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism? Philosophical and Systematic Theologians on the Metaphysics of Trinitarian Theology on the blog at its new location at Patheos. Read more