The General Eclectic #2.23 "Real Apocalypse and the Land of Revelations"

Dec 9, 2022

Rod is fresh off a trip to Turkey, visiting the Seven Churches of the Book of Revelation. Walking the places of the early church helps bring home the "realness" of these ancient lands.

 

Topics:

-Turkey and the Seven Churches

-the early church as the challenge to the established order

-touching real things in real places

-Book of Revelations is written for us

-Tish Harris Warren NYT piece on "getting along"

-Edward Watts' Final Pagan Generation

-there is no such thing as "post-religious"; myth is not optional

-Idol worship and worshipping in the metaverse

-technologies blind us

-NT Wright's Revelation for Everyone

-burden of being an image-bearer

-Twitter is happening (minute 48), and Team Nothingburger is all over it

-dark spirits of race resentment