Dreams of being airborne, leaving this sinful world and all its sinners behind in a cloud of chaos, is the ultimate end-time fantasy. The story is steadfastly held by pre-millennialist, evangelical Christians who read the concept of the Rapture into biblical prophecy about the future of the living, and the dead. The Rapture is prime material for popular mythmaking, and Pippin will trace some of the occurrences in popular culture, and how a Rapture theology plays out in contemporary politics. (Tina Pippin is the Wallace M. Alston Professor of Bible and Religion at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA.) Register for this online Zoom Webinar at tinyurl.com/TPippin