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Top 5 Posts of 2014
By Steve on December 29, 2014
Well another year of blogging is winding down and I can hardly believe I’ve managed to keep Beyond the Pale going for more than six years now. Over 525 posts! People often say to me “Where…
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Forget “Left Behind”: Jesus Breaks the Cycle of Power and Violence
By Steve on October 8, 2014
When Jesus walked the earth he tended to make a lot of people around him angry and frustrated. That’s because the Jewish people were looking for a new leader. Someone who would rise up with God…
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More “Left Behind”: Thoughts on Raptures, Resurrections, and Turning The Prince of Peace into A God of War
By Steve on September 18, 2014
My last post on the upcoming Left Behind movie seem to generate more than the usual amount of discussion. To everyone’s credit the interactions with me, or the one’s I observed between others, were…
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3 Things To Consider Before Inviting Your Friend To See Left Behind
By Steve on September 16, 2014
In a couple weeks time the Left Behind movie will open in cinemas around the world. As someone who got “onboard” the Left Behind evangelistic bandwagon 14 years ago when the original version with Kirk Cameron came…
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Weekend Distractions: First “Left Behind” trailer with Nicholas Cage
By Steve on May 31, 2014
A year ago when an announcement that the “Christian” apocalyptic thriller Left Behind was to be rebooted, a collective groan echoed through a large segment of the Christian community. For many of us who are trying…