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Yes, the details of the apocalypses I’ve researched throughout history can be tragic, and sometimes horrifying.

From Slate • May 14, 2025

"America is an infant," a French survivor says, "but here, we survived many apocalypses."

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2023

The game has no guns, no Marios, no apocalypses.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Burns and his co-showrunner, Dorothy Fortenberry, argue that film and TV have their own version of the same problem: Climate apocalypses create immediate drama and character-level tension.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023

Daniel and Revelation," is of special interest: "The more theoretical or theological messages of the apocalypses it is evidently impossible for us to accept in any literal way as a message for our day.

From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Swain, Richard la Rue