Choosing the Apocalypse: Disaster or Utopia

Zombies. “The Walking Dead.” “The X-Files.” We live in a time of apocalyptic fiction. Zika virus. Ebola. Superbugs. Transgendered restrooms. Banning Muslim entry into America. We live in a time of apocalyptic fear. “How To Survive the...

Waiting in Love, Not Anxiety

A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on November 18, 2012. The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Mark 13:1-8 I Samuel 1:4-20; I Samuel 2:1-10; Hebrews 10:11-14 (15-18), 19-25 If we understand the chronology of...

False End-Times Prophecy Shifts Focus Off Gospel

I thought Hal Lindsey was dead, but I discovered he is quite alive when I ran into him on TV the other night. Not only is he very much alive, but also the end-times prophecy that forms the basis of his theological and political perspective on the world is also very...

Earth Escapes Aug. 22 Doomsday Scare

If you’re reading this you can breathe a sigh of relief. It means the world didn’t end Aug. 22, as a number of conservative Web sites have speculated the last couple of weeks it might. It started not with some doomsday wacko, but with respected Princeton...