The Explainer: For some Christians, a solar eclipse signals the second coming of Christ
In an article first published on The Conversation, sholar of early Christian literature ERIC VANDEN EYKEL looks at how some Christians view next week’s solar eclipse…
Sight-Seeing: Think we’re living through the Apocalypse? So did first-century Christians
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE says, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that apocalyptic writers have something important to tell us…
Updated: Tennessee newspaper investigating “horrific” end of times ad
Updated: 7.30am, 23rd June, 2020RNS The editor of the Nashville Tennessean has vowed to investigate how a full-page ad predicting a nuclear attack by Muslims purchased by a breakaway Seventh-day Adventist group ran in the paper. A version of the ad from Future for America, a “prophecy ministry” based in Arkansas, ran on Sunday. The […]
Jack Van Impe, US end-times preacher and televangelist, dies at 88
RNS Jack Van Impe, a televangelist who spent decades warning Christians that the end of the world was nigh, has died, his ministry announced on Saturday. He was 88. “The beloved Dr Jack Van Impe was welcomed into Heaven by His blessed Savior and Lord who he had so faithfully served in ministry for over 70 years,” […]