Apocalypticism

This week, researchers at Cornell spent presumably valuable time determining the safest places to be during a zombie apocalypse. Key takeaway: not big cities. To observe that the apocalypse, in…

According to a new PRRI poll, 60% of white evangelicals “ support the goals of Obama’s executive action” on immigration (which isn’t too far below the nation at large, at 72%). Yet 67% of white…

Even if we haven’t listened, every generation of evangelicals and fundamentalists says it: Their apocalyptic theology makes them more active not less.

Looking for Satan in all the wrong places.

“Religious enthusiasm” or the American apocalyptic can be read as modes of the disaffection of the citizen in a time of political delegitimation. We often see this “religion” taking shape most clearly when we focus all the way down, to the odd hybrid of melancholy and triumphalism in these assertions about Damascus.

Values Voters Summit forces moderate Republicans to face some crushing facts.

When I conducted a focus group at this church, the end times seemed to be on everyone’s mind. When we talked about caring for the environment, “Craig” cautioned that it was important to draw the line between protecting the creation and worshipping it, while “Julie” agreed, adding that, “like with the polar bears and stuff, of course I don’t want them to die, but you also have to realize this is just a part of the world coming to an end like it’s supposed to. And there’s nothing really that they can do.”

RD talks to Mark Van Stone, author of 2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya, who claims that the real lesson of the Maya is that they showed us how to destroy a civilization by stupidly using up their environment and by not planning for a bad year.

Jesus… not just for Christians.

Whoever took this viral thinks that Romney’s religion will scare voters away.