Reading Time: 5 minutes All this time, despite my misgivings about the very un-Christlike people in my church’s leadership and in my own little family, I spent a lot of time at the church, as one might expect. My mother’d been downright alarmed when she’d realized I was spending five out of every seven nights at church when I […]
Rapture
Rapture Scare, Part One.
Reading Time: 5 minutes I had been unchurched for a few months when a friend of mine from school, Angela, invited me to her church. She was quite straightforward, unlike Jennifer who’d called her church’s proselytization effort a “pizza blast” and pretended it was just some hangout thing. Angela said there was a revival meeting at her church and […]
No Apologies or even Admission of Failure from Camping
Reading Time: 2 minutes Harold Camping’s Family Radio has scrubbed its web site of any reference to its humiliating end-of-the-world failure. In what other industry could such a catastrophic failure be ignored so completely?
Only 21 More Shopping Days Till the End of the World!
Reading Time: 3 minutes The world will end one month from today on October 21, 2011—or so Harold Camping would have us believe. Many Christians use the Bible to attack his claim. But the Bible is a sock puppet, able to say just about anything you want it to, and Camping is able to respond.