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The Rapture

January 2015

  • Atomic Bomb

    David Byrne and Gotye bring African electro beat to Sydney – video

    Wally De Backer and the Talking Heads legend on Atomic Bomb!, a musical tribute to Nigerian synth pioneer William Onyeabor

December 2013

  • Harold Camping

    Judgment Day preacher Harold Camping dies, aged 92

    Californian preacher gained fame for predicting – wrongly – that the Rapture would happen on 21 May 2011

January 2012

  • doom monger: the end of the world is nigh

    Reasons to be cheerful in 2012
    Reasons to be cheerful in 2012: it's not the end of the world. Again

    Yes, things are looking grim, says Tim Dowling, but on the bright side we're going to make it through another Doomsday (probably)

May 2011

  • Rapture

    Divine dispatches: religion news roundup
    Divine dispatches: a religion roundup

    Riazat Butt
  • End of the world

    Apocalypse still imminent: Rapture now coming in October

  • William Blake's Jacob's Ladder

    GrrlScientist
    After The Rapture

  • A banner warns of the Rapture on a street in Manila, the Philippines

    Apocalypse not now: The Rapture fails to materialise

  • Cif belief
    Hellfire and ice-cream – alternative visions of the Rapture

    Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio
  • If the Wrexham pony meets Arnie, it's time for the Rapture

    Marina Hyde
  • The Rapture: judgment day imminent … if US engineer has calculated right

  • GrrlScientist
    How to prepare for The Rapture

  • Books blog
    Apocalypse now? Christian Rapture fiction and the end of the world

  • Cif belief
    Divine dispatches: a religion roundup

    Riazat Butt
  • Cif belief
    The end of the world starts on 21 May … well, perhaps

    Andrew Brown

September 2010

  • Handout photo of Reyna Marisol Chicas, leader of a breakaway religious sect missing from Palmdale

    California police search for breakaway religious sect

    Group of immigrants, including children as young as three years old, left letters indicating they were awaiting 'the Rapture'

June 2008

  • Rapture site sends unbelievers their last chance ... via email

    Subscribers promised 'last opportunity' to fire off evangelical messages to those left behind in event of second coming

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