Readers Reply

We Might Regress

Thank you for printing only substantive and meaningful responses to ideas in your August letters section. Your restraint in not publishing vituperative, cancel-my-subscription sputterings from readers with closed minds and short fuses who have nothing worthwhile to contribute is a sign that this magazine is leaving behind its wont to titillate and to smirk at others and is finally growing up.

Wright

Read On

I imagine you’ll get a lot of cancellations over N.T. Wright’s courageous column regarding the Rapture of the Church (“Farewell to the Rapture,” BR 17:04). Some of the most obscure passages in the Bible are used by many as a sort of litmus test: Either you believe in the Rapture, Great Tribulation, Second Coming and Millennium (in that order), or else you are a shallow Christian lacking scriptural understanding!