Ross Douthat, one of the blogging editors at The Atlantic, critiques an Ian McEwan essay that rings similar alarm about the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Branch Davidian inferno.

McEwan writes in the Guardian:

Here is a segment from Michael Moore's TV Nation (1994) in which correspondent Louis Theroux investigates the religious groups known as "Millennialists" (the most infamous being the Branch Davidians), most of which believe the world was to end in the year 2000.

Happy Sabbath! Welcome to the Spectrum Blog Liturgy, something I created as an excuse to combine some good music with Adventism's ultimate concerns. If you do stay for the service below, feel free to drop a comment about your week and what's on your mind.

The beginning of Advent. The service today centers on the the apocalypse and how humanity confronts our always, already present end.

Opening Prayer
Michael Franti and Spearhead: Time To Go Home