End Times

Environmental apocalypse: the religious drama of COP26

November 2, 2021
Archbishop Cranmer
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"Since it is difficult to distinguish true prophets from false, it is as well to regard all prophets with suspicion," warned Primo Levi in his 1947 work If This Is a Man / The Truce. As the Archbishop of Canterbury…

Flood, fire, famine and pestilence: the end is nigh (maybe)

July 16, 2021
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Wildfires blaze across the western states: California and Oregon burn day and night. Death Valley hit a blistering 54.4°C, which might be the highest recorded ambient temperature on Earth. Across…

Bishop endorses Extinction Rebellion

October 10, 2019
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Extinction Rebellion say billions of people will die in the next decade or so due to climate change, so they are blockading parts of London for a fortnight, preventing people…

Soubry: “Since the referendum, the forces of darkness have taken over”

July 22, 2018
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We have become used to the notion of Brexit apocalypse, as the Archbishop of Canterbury observed last year: "They foresee the Four Horsemen of the Book of Revelation (death, hunger,…

Advertising Standards Authority probes billboards declaring ‘The Messiah has come’

February 20, 2018
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Billboards have been popping up around London declaring 'The Messiah has come'. According to Harry Farley in Christian Today, these have attracted a number of objections, and the Advertising Standards…

You will hear of wars, assassinations and terrorist atrocities… Joy to the world

December 20, 2016
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Christmas carnage in Berlin as Islamic State manage to get someone to plough a 27-ton HGV into a market, killing 12 and injuring 50. Weeping and wailing; mulled wine all…

Remembrance Day: there’s a long, long trail a-winding..

November 13, 2016
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A long trail of prophets and dark prophecies precedes the apocalypse. When you're dead, you don't care. When you're partly living with no eyes, one leg and half a mind,…

The Spectator brands Justin Welby “liberal left” – for seeking Islamist understanding

October 5, 2016
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Spectator columnist and associate editor Rod Liddle sometimes sounds like he's channeling the EDL, or at least supping with Ukip, but he is, in fact, a fully paid-up member of…

The Kingdom of God is within you, but it is also a future promise

March 8, 2016
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Where is the Kingdom of God? Does it matter? How can it be both within you and yet still to come? Or has it already come? And if it…

On the Feast of Stephen

December 26, 2015
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The funeral of St Stephen, by Filippo Lippi (1460). St Stephen – 'a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost' (Acts 6:5) – was chosen to be a…

Does God suffer?

September 21, 2015
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There's an awful lot of suffering and badness around. Nasty people do nasty things, and wicked people do worse. There are floods, droughts and earthquakes, which are no-one's fault;…

The apocalypse of Islam and the signs of the times

August 26, 2015
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The Temple of Baalshamin predated Mohammed by six centuries. It was a cultural jewel in the Syrian desert, revealing to the world a glimpse of the pre-Islamic religions of…

Was St Paul wrong about the timing of the Second Coming?

August 20, 2015
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If Jesus, being fully and infallibly God, was not wrong about the time of his Second Coming, what about St Paul, being fully and fallibly man? The whole thrust…

Was Jesus wrong about the timing of his Second Coming?

August 19, 2015
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The imminence of the long-prophesied kingdom of God and the end of time has occupied Christians and Jews more than any other subject of theological conjecture. Certainly, at the…

Iran nuclear deal: Obama is fulfilling Shia 'End Times' prophecy

July 16, 2015
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The Iran nuclear deal thrashed out between Tehran and Washington has heartened 99% of the world. It was a triumph for diplomacy; the vindication of politics; a welcome and…

Trident is the price we pay for peace and national security

April 9, 2015
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In their Pastoral Letter (remember that?) “to the people and parishes of the Church of England for the General Election 2015″, the House of Bishops called for a "real…

Christians are united in the ecumenism of blood

February 25, 2015
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'Follow Me' by Wael Mories. “In this moment of prayer for unity, I would also like to remember our martyrs, the martyrs of today,” said Pope Francis, as he…

Ukip: The First 100 Days and Channel 4 gratuitous anti-Israelism

February 17, 2015
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If you didn't see Channel 4's over-hyped docu-drama Ukip: The First 100 Days, don't bother dashing for C4 On Demand. It is a tedious effort, dramatic dullsville, full of…