apocalypse
Apocalypse when? New documentary examines failed prophet Harold Camping
By Kimberly Winston — May 21, 2014
(RNS) Three years after his failed prophecy about the end of the world, a new film about doomsday prophet Harold Camping offers an intimate glimpse inside the last days of his Family Radio empire.
Is God going to incinerate the Earth? And does it matter?
By Jonathan Merritt — May 21, 2013
Some evangelicals--but not all--believe the Earth will end in a cosmic barbecue. What difference does it make?
As they turn 150, Adventists still pray for the apocalypse
By Daniel Burke — April 10, 2013
(RNS) They started as a movement determined that Christ would return any day now. Now, as the Seventh-day Adventists turn 150 years old, there's growing tension about building an institution that many hope won't last much longer.
Muslim views of the Apocalypse
By Daniel Burke — February 6, 2013
(RNS) Muslim and Christian views of the Apocalypse are remarkably similar, albeit with a different ending.
How the “Islamic Antichrist” reflects our era’s anxieties
By Daniel Burke — February 6, 2013
Every age needs an Antichrist. For Protestant reformers, it was the papacy. For Cold War Christians, it was the Soviets. Now, a growing group of evangelicals say the Antichrist will be Muslim.
ThursdayâÂ?Â?s Religion Roundup: Cage-fighting for Jesus? Apocalypse now — again?
By David Gibson — January 26, 2012
Evangelicals debate the ethics of cage-fighting, George Soros channels Harold Camping, Alaska Airlines stops handing out prayer cards, we reveal “most exciting archival discovery in the post-Reformation era.”
Self-proclaimed prophet spawns apocalypse movement
By Tracy Gordon — March 22, 2011
OAKLAND, Calif. (RNS) Save the date: May 21, 2011. If preacher Harold Camping is right, that’s the exact date Jesus will return and the righteous will fly up to heaven, leaving behind only their clothes. That will be followed by five months of fire, brimstone and plagues, with millions of people dying each day and […]
The Apocalypse is supposed to be a good thing, right?
By Tracy Gordon — August 13, 2010
(RNS) As “Left Behind” co-author Tim LaHaye sees it, the United States is inching ever closer to the Apocalypse, and he’s not shy about who’s to blame. “Our president doesn’t seem to get it,” LaHaye recently told talk show host (and former presidential candidate) Mike Huckabee. “He doesn’t understand that some of the things he’s […]
The Apocalypse
By Mark Silk — October 28, 2008
News that the Christian Science Monitor is killing off its print edition put me in mind of a story my late father used to tell. It was just after World War II, and freshly demobilized from the Army he was traveling around war-torn (as they said) Europe stringing for the Monitor. He had a purple […]
This Week’s Sign of the Apocalypse
By Daniel Burke — April 10, 2008
In this week’s sign of the apocalypse (to borrow a gimmick from Sports Illustrated) Catholic League honcho Bill Donohue has announced that he agrees with Sen. Clinton. That is, he too, thinks that Prez Bush should boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games to protest China’s crackdown on religious liberty. “Senator Clinton gets it […]
Hurricanes and the Apocalypse
By RNS Blog Editor — September 1, 2005
Did Hurricane Katrina Deliver a Spiritual Message? RNS’ article of the week (linked above), from content-partner Beliefnet, outlines a variety of meanings being read into the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Stephen O’Leary, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, sees little distinction between religious end-times beliefs and more […]
NEWS STORY: Religious scholars probe recent films on apocalypse
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service BOSTON Bruce Willis, Robin Williams and Darth Vader may have something in common. They may all be agents of the apocalypse. That, at least, is the impression of a group of scholars who presented papers on”Film and the Apocalypse”at the American Academy of Religion’s (AAR) annual meeting. Drawing from a […]
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