Ultimately, we do play a part in our own destiny, for destiny only takes us half way. The rest we have to walk ourselves.
Greg Carey | Posted 04.14.2012
Revelation reveals what it means to worship God and Christ. It challenges believers to faithful living in the midst of cultural pressure to compromise.
Mitch Horowitz | Posted 03.05.2012
The ancient Mayan people maintained a complex system of calendars, which ended with this year, 2012. This anomaly has caused many to wonder whether the great calendar-makers foresaw an apocalypse in our era. The truth is more complex.
Jason Boyett | Posted 03.04.2012
Now that it's actually 2012, the year in which those fictional events supposedly were to have taken place, you may be wondering: Is the Mayan calendar a real thing? Were we warned? Is 2012 the end of the world?
Greg Carey | Posted 03.02.2012
No academic interpreter of Revelation understands the book as a roadmap for the future. Instead, Revelation originally spoke to the conditions of its own time and place.
Robert Koehler | Posted 08.30.2011
The culture of moneyed interests, war and techno-diversion, which is global in scope, is killing us at the same time that its media apologists reassure us that everything is fine and under control.
Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 08.01.2011
Israel is no more. Its cities lay in ruins, its people wallow in oppression. All signs of Jewish presence in the Holy Land are being eradicated: synag...
Paul Stoller | Posted 07.26.2011
If you think that these kinds of apocalyptic beliefs are "primitive" or "far-fetched," think again. Americans seem to have a deep hunger for reading material about the End Times Rapture.
Posted 07.24.2011
Harold Camping, the fringe religious leader who predicted that the rapture would take place last Saturday, has been explaining why we're all still her...
Lodro Rinzler | Posted 07.23.2011
I have to say, both on Sept. 6, 1994 and on May 21, 2011, I feel like you did something that was not so great. In fact, I'll say it was pretty awful.
Clay Farris Naff | Posted 07.23.2011
People of good faith can make common cause against apocalypse. Regardless of our view of ultimate reality, we can accept the world as science finds it and take responsibility for stewarding it.
Posted 07.21.2011
Even if the Rapture doesn't come May 21, maybe thinking about Judgment Day every century or so can be a good thing. The End of Times have been a popul...
Shastri Purushotma | Posted 07.20.2011
The Baha'is have an interesting and different take on the end times scenario: They see "the end of days" as the end of one major stage of history and the beginning of a new one.
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 07.20.2011
If you are reading this on Sunday and the neighborhood seems strangely quiet, you've probably been left behind. Here are helpful hints to consider before heading to your post-Rapture picnic.
Brenda Peterson | Posted 07.19.2011
When California preacher, Harold Camping, predicted the world would end this Saturday evening, several of my Rapture-ready friends insisted I finish reading the "Left Behind" series and make my preparations.
Father Alberto Cutie | Posted 12.16.2011
What surprises me most is that in the 21st century there are thousands of people on this religiously motivated train ride of despair.
Ben Daniel | Posted 07.12.2011
Let's make May 21 a holy festival, not because the world will come to and end, but because it won't. Celebrate life and the ongoing beauty of the world we are blessed to call home.
Dr. David Liepert | Posted 07.11.2011
Moses, Jesus and Muhammad seemed to be striving for a world with peace. All that means for sure is the world's not going to be ending anytime soon.
Ellis Weiner | Posted 07.06.2011
Rapture and Rand: What a couple of sexy, compelling twins! Both offer unsparing moralistic revenge fantasies. Both solicit your agreement and your endorsement in exchange for your salvation.
Posted 06.25.2011
By Kathleen O'Brien Religion News Service (RNS) Give these billboards credit: They don't hedge their bet. Judgment Day is coming May 21, 201...
Wes Isley | Posted 05.28.2011
Religion unites us in times of trouble, it helps us persevere in difficult circumstances, and it gives us hope. But we need to go further and seriously ask, does God use nature to punish?
Matthew L. Skinner | Posted 05.27.2011
Of course, Christians have been proclaiming the nearness of Jesus' return ever since there have been Christians. So far, one might conclude, Jesus has been uninterested in taking the bait.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011
"The Great Atomic Power" was first recorded in 1952, the year that the hydrogen bomb was first tested. The song may have provided some comfort for those listeners aware that the nuclear arms race was at its height.
Rev. James Martin, S.J. | Posted 05.25.2011
Father James Martin, S.J., discusses some possible explanations for mass animal deaths as well as what the bible says about the end times.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald | Posted 05.25.2011
When I was a kid I knew The World was going to Hell in a hand basket. I didn't know what that phrase meant, still don't really, but I knew that it was one of the only times I could get away with saying hell.
Jay Tavare | Posted 05.06.2012