This Week in Word from the Bird
Posts for 1-5 Jan 2024
Happy New Year everyone! To kick off the new year, I’m gonna focus on the future, i.e., eschatology.
Monday: So What is the Rapture? (Free Sign-Ups)
In some Christian schemes of the end-times, there is a thing called the “rapture,” where the church (i.e., true believers) will be raptured up to heaven at the Lord’s first return. Then, after seven years of tribulation, the Lord will return again with the church, to usher in a millennial reign on earth. But will it?
Wednesday: What is "Apocalyptic"? (Free Sign-Ups)
People often talk about something as “apocalyptic” or “the apocalypse.” Whenever they do, I often feel like saying, “You keep using that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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Friday: N.T. Wright and the (Not Quite) Second Coming (Paid Subscribers)
I stumbled across an old video by William Lane Craig, a great Christian philosopher, who critiques N.T. Wright on his approach to the second coming. Some things to reflect on here!