Apocalypticism

Kendrick Lamar’s fourth album, Damn, (stylized “DAMN”) has been number one on the Billboard charts for the past three three weeks. The first track, “HUMBLE,” caused an immediate stir, with verses…

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. To the uninitiated, it sounds like a bad joke. That’s your favorite show? Really? Aren’t you a professor… and an adult… and a Man? But to the initiated… well, to the…

What should we make of the recent blockbuster revelations in the New York Times about Steve Bannon’s ties to the Vatican—and the possible parallel between conservative hardliners at the Vatican…

The “end of the world” is great for this televangelist’s business.

The whipcrack of agon has lashed America’s 2016, and Tim LaHaye has died. The extraordinarily influential evangelical remains best known for his co-authorship of the Left Behind novels, ubiquitous…

What led Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel to rent a refrigerated truck, arm himself with a few pistols and fake assault rifles, and begin his terrible rampage last week on the beachside promenade of Nice…

This year saw the launch of the Cubit: RD’s answer to the mainstream media’s coverage of the intersection of religion and science—those too-familiar stories in which religion and science are…

When it comes to the end-times, Ben Carson may just be confounding the typical narratives about conservative Christian presidential candidates. If a conservative evangelical or Pentecostal candidate…

To bolster a weakened Assad regime, Russia has spent the last few weeks sending military hardware, specialists and even aircraft to Syria. Some argue Putin’s escalation highlights the failures of…

It’s all about the apocalypse.