"Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter." Read more
If you're reading this blog, you're almost certainly among those whom Tim LaHaye & Jerry Jenkins believe will be left behind by the Rapture. Realizing that is part of what makes this story so disappointing -- why it fails to live up to the promise of its premise. Read more
Women's lives matter. Women's lives matter more than men's rules for moral purity. That is the overarching and underlying theme surrounding every biblical discussion of divorce. Read more
Paige Patterson is a "high-ranking" Baptist official. But "high-ranking Baptist" is an oxymoron. The priesthood of all believers means exactly that: one rank, no hierarchy. Read more
The typewriter-and-overhead-transparency production values of that weird 1989 police advisory can trick us into thinking this is all in the past. It's not. The Satanic Panic evolved, but it never ended. Read more
Our first glimpse of Nicolae Carpathia shows him standing alongside the least of these, feeding the hungry and comforting what appears to be a group of widows and orphans.In Tim LaHaye's theology, this clearly marks him as the Antichrist. Read more
This is an old song and an even older story, but the way Johnny Cash tells it here seems pretty timely. The gluttonous king thought he had it pretty good with his concubines and wives and his mighty wall. But then ... Read more
Stetzer treats Pressler's legal jeopardy and Patterson's views as a PR problem for Southern Baptists. It's also that, of course. But not only, or even mainly, that. Read more
Would there be another four years before the Rapture and The End? Maybe. Probably. We would be the Class of '90 in college, and maybe there'd be a '90. But a '99? A 2000? That, we had been trained to believe, was less and less likely. Read more
I don't know exactly what's going on at Religion News Service, but it seems bad. Some of their best reporters have resigned in protest as the nonprofit's management does its best imitation of Tronc. Read more
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