Skeptophilia

Well, Tuesday came and went, and no one got Raptured. Not that I was expecting to go myself.  If anything, it was more likely the ground wou...

Well, it was nice knowing you all. I have it on good authority that today is the Rapture, wherein Jesus reappears on Earth, selects a few of...

A while back, I wrote about the strange and disheartening research by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter , the upshot of w...

I have commented more than once about my incredulity with regards to end-of-the-world predictions.  Despite the fact that to date, they have...

Hi!  Hope you're having a lovely day so far.  Enjoy what you can of it, because we're all gonna die today. At least that's the c...

I think we've all had moments when we were taken in by a prank or a hoax.  Some of them can be pretty clever, and after all, we're o...

I find it simultaneously amusing and terrifying how steeped in self-delusion some folks are. Now, it's not that I think I'm always r...

I'm about halfway through the first draft of my current work-in-progress, a novel called In the Midst of Lions  about a perfectly ordina...

The American public has quite a taste for the dire predictions from the Book of Revelation.  Consider, for example, the 2014 Rapture-based m...

If five years ago I had turned in a manuscript to my publisher that was a recounting, to the last detail, of the events of the last six mont...