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LaHaying
the Rapture on Thick
By
Carl Olson
You
run into them everywhere these days — those best-selling,
slickly produced, heavily publicized apocalyptic potboilers
called the Left Behind series. Their co-authors, Tim LaHaye
and Jerry B. Jenkins, base the fiction on the eccentric doctrine
called the secret “rapture,” a third, invisible, coming
of Christ to snatch away all true Christians from the earth
before the terrors of the Antichrist begin.
Are these stories just a little harmless diversion for bored
Fundamentalists and curious Catholics? Or is there
something more dangerous in the theology and attitudes this
mushrooming “rapture industry” is promoting?
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Taking
a Tour of the House of God
By Michael Rose
Non-Catholics
who venture into a traditional Catholic church often come away
with significant questions: What’s the tabernacle for?
How is a Catholic altar different from a Protestant “communion
table”? What’s the origin of the Stations of the Cross?
Why do you have the kneeling pads, altar rail, towers, bells,
statues, votive candles, choir loft, and all the other distinctive
furnishings? Church architecture expert Michael Rose offers
a guided tour of the age-old Domus Dei — the “House
of God.”
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Harry
Potter: Agent of Conversion
By Toni Collins
J.
K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fantasy novels for kids are flying
off bookstore and library shelves like magic, capturing the hearts
of millions of children and adults. Countless parents are thrilled
that their kids are reading enthusiastically for the first time.
But other parents find darker elements of the Potter books deeply
disturbing: witchcraft and wizardry, “role models” who
lie and flaunt the rules, twisted religious imagery. Toni Collins
tells how readers with past connections to occult practices share
a feeling of dread about Potter’s popularity — and tells
how God used these books to reveal an unconfessed sin troubling
her life.
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