“Scared to Believe?”
With Friends Like These
English - August 07, 2020 07:01 - 45 minutes - 62.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 6.3K ratingsSociety & Culture News Politics politics entrepreneurship health interview news business culture comedy leadership entrepreneur Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In the 1990s, evangelical churches bought and gave away thousands of copies of the book, “Left Behind,” hoping its overwrought depiction of the End Times would frighten unbelievers into the arms of Christ. That is not what happened. Amy Frykholm, author of “Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America,” explains what did.