As the long season of Pentecost ends, and Advent returns, the lectionary readings become uncomfortably apocalyptic, with predictions of the end of time, and images of the Second Coming of Christ who will loose “the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword.” As thinking Christians suspicious of such predictions, how can we take comfort in the promise of God's judgement before the end of all temporal things? What do we make of the strange promise that the world we inhabit is not as it seems, and the world that we are meant to live in is unseen but always present? Join us as Dean Safford reflects on these questions.

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