I think it's a really important question.
I wrote a book about the apocalypse, way back in the last millennium and I was concerned
to discourage people from the deterministic view and it's kind of negative, and often
very sexist, vision of a final destruction
of everything planetary,
and then the new 'creation daddy' makes us a new one.
I realised of course that the apocalypse had very positive motivations for social justice
working in it as well.
But now, I feel like we have to come back to the book again afresh, because the question
does arise with the hurricanes and the floods and the drought and the rising famines,
the earthquakes, the huge fires, all of which were happening in the United States
just a couple of weeks ago.
What is this?
Is this actually the apocalypse?
And it's important I think for Christians
to say, very carefully here, 'yes, but not
in the sense of a predestined doom, but in
the original sense of the word.'
Apocalypse of disclosure, that we're being
shown by our own actions and their consequences
that we are responsible for the well-being
of our whole species admitst all the other
species and the life of this planet.
It is not too late, but as Martin Luther King
did say in relation to the Vietnam War in
the late sixties, there is such a thing as
too late.
And so he called for the fierce urgency of
now.
And I think that's what the apocalypse is
calling us to: right now
