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Inspired
Inspired is the nation's leading public radio show about faith, ethics and spirituality. Each week we offer you analyses of the big headlines alongside lesser-told stories – those of Orthodox Jewish artists and African-American atheists, Muslim feminists and spiritual seekers. Through these stories, a rough sketch of our country’s religious landscape begins to emerge. It’s a marketplace of beliefs and ideas too complex for sound bites, and too important to ignore.
A Lesson in Rapture Theology
A growing number of Christians look forward to the Rapture, the day when, according to First Thessalonians, believers will be launched into the clouds “to meet the Lord in the air.” And many think that day is coming soon. Rev. Mark Schaefer, United Methodist Chaplain and Professor of Philosophy and Religion at American University explains the (short) history of belief in the Rapture, which he says dates to the beginning of the 19th century. From 2010.
Painter of the Apocalypse
The modern portrait of the Rapture as a day when planes crash from missing flight crews and driver-less cars veer off the road comes largely from Tim LaHaye. He’s the co-author of Left Behind, a series of best-selling novels about an Evangelical Christian vision of the end of the world.
Outrunning the Reaper
Since the beginning of recorded history, humans have longed to keep the soul and body perpetually alive. Philosopher Stephen Cave calls this urge a universal obsession, the driving force behind our greatest monuments, scientific advancements, and world religions.From 2012.
