Deep Dive: The Book of Revelation

Service Description

Once, there was a little evangelical kid who got left at home by his parents. They didn't realize they'd left him, but he was pretty sure he hadn't just been forgotten: he'd been "left behind." If that sounds familiar - or if your head is swimming with anxiety or confusion around words like 'preterism,' 'Antichrist,' 'Great Tribulation,' 'postmillenial,' 'preterism,' or similar, this is the Deep Dive for you. When the doctrines just get too messy, when the category errors start stacking up, when the weirdness just gets too goopy to sort through: that's what Deep Dives are for. These mini-cohorts are meat-and-potatoes decon-recon, going right at the heart of what was weaponized to harm. The Book of Revelation is like catnip to evangelicals. Americans love to get in there and speculate about the symbols, fiddle with the prophecies, and conjure terrifying visions of the future. Swarms of flesh-devouring locusts (or Apache attack helicopters, depending on who you ask), the Mark of the Beast and what '666' even means (is it barcodes? Credit cards? Crypto?), and more endless nonsense has produced several generations of American Christian who were terrified into compliance with the horrifying predictions of the future that evangelical leaders tried to extract out of this book. But that's not what it's for at all. This Deep Dive tries to neutralize the poison by: - remembering the biblical cosmology, and how this helps us read not just Revelation, but the whole Bible - dismantling nearly 2000 years of interpretational guesswork in favor of "just the facts, ma'am" - debunking the absurdities of the various interpretational frameworks in favor of the book's own words about itself - placing it all in the context of a broader healthy spirituality, and how we can use its lessons to ground ourselves in peace, hope, and love In this cohort, for $40 you're getting: - 6 weeks of sessions - Tons of free reading resources - A one-sheet that gathers everything we learn into one place for you to refer to later - Weekly recordings or transcripts if you can't attend one week - New (but actually, just really old) interpretational tools to help you in your deconstruction or reconstruction journey Deconstructing, deconverted, reconverted, reconstructing, or anywhere along that spectrum - if you're still struggling with anxiety about the end times, the Rapture, or other Revelation-related stuff, this one's for you.