Pastors need to be ethnographers of the everyday, helping parishioners see their own environment as one that is formative, and all too often deformative. James Smith

The point of apocalyptic literature is not prediction but unmasking—unveiling the realities around us for what they really are. While the Roman Empire pretends to be a gift to civilisation and the zenith of human accomplishment, John’s apocalyptic perspective from a heavenly angle shows us the reality: Rome is a monster. James Smith