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September 2026

September 12, 2026

Agentic AI Apocalypse?

This Is Not Skynet: AI Agents, Apocalypse, and the Humans Holding the Keys If you...

January 2026

January 06, 2026

Venezuela, Greenland, and the Apocalypse

When I title this post "Venezuela Greenland and the Apocalypse" that does not mean that...

December 2020

December 21, 2020

Supper’s Ready Live

I have blogged about the Genesis song Supper's Ready before (links to those previous posts...

November 2019

November 29, 2019

#CFP TexMoot 2020–Apocalypse: Unveiling the Future

TexMoot 2020–Apocalypse: Unveiling the Future Signum University’s Third Annual Texas Literature & Language Symposium From...

October 2019

October 10, 2019

Mass of the Apocalypse

From the blog post at Land of Lost Content about Peter Dickinson's Mass of the Apocalypse:...

September 2018

September 27, 2018

Not Your Everyday Apocalypse?

In a recent post, Vance Morgan shared his experience of growing up steeped in the...

July 2018

July 20, 2018

Reading Revelation from the Margins and from a Position of Power

I was really struck by futurist David Brin's comments about Abraham Lincoln's words. He wrote:...

May 2018

May 17, 2018

The Lord’s Work

I've been meaning to share the cartoon below since Gretchen Koch shared it almost two...

September 2016

September 28, 2016

Apocalypse and Authenticity Conference

There's going to be a conference about apocalypse in popular culture at the University of...

September 18, 2016

Shock and Awe: Apocalyptic in Sci-Fi, Jihad, and Other Eschatologies

Via 3QuarksDaily, I learned of this piece by Lewis Lapham about the end times. Since...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

Hilding Rosenberg, Symphony No.4 “Johannes uppenbarelse”

A symphony based on and incorporating parts of the Revelation of John, as well as...

October 2015

October 08, 2015

Rapture Survivor Card

It's Thursday, and so don't forget to get your card stamped...

October 07, 2015

The End of the World Table

Given the claim that the world will end today (which is ultimately inspired by Harold...

October 06, 2015

Wednesday Apocalypse

I was in two minds about whether to even blog about the prediction some have...

September 2015

September 26, 2015

#YCAS2015 Fifth Panel

The morning of the second day of the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium began with Gregory...

July 2015

July 14, 2015

Proof These Are The Last Days?

This came my way via Facebook, and I thought I would share it here. I appreciate...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

Redeeming Gnosticism

There will be an interesting conference at Rice University this week: GNOSTIC COUNTERCULTURES: INTRIGUE AND...

March 21, 2015

Eclipse Venn Diagram

Another amusing Venn Diagram, courtesy of TheologyGrams.

January 2015

January 16, 2015

Cordoba Call for Papers: Science Fiction and the Bible

Dr. Frauke Uhlenbruck, PhD (congratulations, Frauke!) mentioned on her blog Gods and Machines that the...

July 2014

July 06, 2014

Word of the Day: Apocalyptabuse

S. Brent Plate coined the word in a recent article about a new TV show,...

March 2014

March 10, 2014

Reporting the Apocalypse

Hemant Mehta shared the delightful BuzzFeed rundown of the different ways different media outlets would...

January 2014

January 04, 2014

Tomorrow and The Day After Tomorrow

As weather forecasters are warning of a "polar vortex" set to bring record low temperatures...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

Zombie Acropolis

After I posted about the Zombie Bible series, someone commented on Facebook that they need...

May 2013

May 04, 2013

Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror

"The Crimson Horror" brings together a team of characters to tackle a somewhat stereotypical evil,...

February 2013

February 11, 2013

The Four Horses of the Snowpocalypse

These horses were actually sculpted in China - read the story here. But for some...

February 09, 2013

That’s Not Taking Revelation Literally

One media outlet described the man who quit his job over a form with the...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

Modern Mayans

From yesterday's Bizarro Comics.

January 01, 2013

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

I just watched the movie Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. It...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Post-Apocalyptic Grumpy Cat

This made me laugh out loud - literally. And so I felt I ought to...

December 20, 2012

We Survived the End!

To all those involved in education, and who not only knew better than to be...

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