Recovering Millenarian
4 min readJul 19, 2021
Once in elementary school I couldn’t find my parents. I looked in room after room. My terror mounted; by the time I realized my dad was just in the shed, I’d been fully panicked for about ten minutes. What if this was it, I thought? What if this was the Rapture, and I hadn’t believed in Jesus hard enough to fly up to Heaven with my family?
I suspect most people with a conservative Christian background can relate. I…