mark of the beast

ApocryFUN: A Midwinter Series with Tyler Huckabee + Ep. 5: Left Behind

By Roxanne Stone — February 7, 2024
In this episode, Roxy reads Left Behind for the first time and reports back to Tyler.

Some pastors fear talking about vaccines. Bishop Horace Smith sees them as a blessing.

By Bob Smietana — December 9, 2021
(RNS) — Church leaders can play an important role in promoting COVID-19 vaccines to keep communities safe — if they build trust.

No, the COVID-19 vaccine is not linked to the mark of the beast – but a first-century Roman tyrant probably is

By Eric M. Vanden Eykel — April 7, 2021
(The Conversation) — A scholar argues that Nero is the person identified in the Bible as 666.

COVID vaccines are moral to use, say ethicists, Catholic bishops

By Bob Smietana — November 25, 2020
(RNS) — ‘We have seen the polls looking at how many people are willing to take the vaccines and we’re very concerned the number is much lower than it should be,’ said an ethicist at the Christian Medical & Dental Association.

Quitting job over 666 was ‘a blessing,’ says Christian worker

By Bob Smietana — January 2, 2020
(RNS) — In 2012, Walter Slonopas quit his job as a maintenance worker after '666' showed up on his official tax forms. In the years since, things have turned out well for Slonopas — he found a new job with better pay, while his former company closed down.

Christian worker quits over 666 on tax form

By Bob Smietana — February 7, 2013
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) Walter Slonopas said he quit his job last week in order to save his soul, resigning after his W-2 tax form was stamped with the number 666.

How the “Islamic Antichrist” reflects our era’s anxieties

By Daniel Burke — February 6, 2013
Every age needs an Antichrist. For Protestant reformers, it was the papacy. For Cold War Christians, it was the Soviets. Now, a growing group of evangelicals say the Antichrist will be Muslim.
Page 1 of 1